Re: [patch] fix test-update-copyright when perl is not in /usr/bin/perl

[Christophe LYON]

On 14.09.2009 16:44, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Christophe LYON wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Here is a small patch to make "make check" PASS when a suitable perl
> > is not in /usr/bin. (without this, I had update-copyright.sh FAIL,
> > while my system has fairly recent perl installed, but not in /usr/bin)
>
> Thanks for the patch.
> However, that test should exit 77, and hence merely be skipped,
> when /usr/bin/perl does not exist.  Please run it manually,
> to see what's going wrong:

Hello,

Given Eric's answer, I guess the patch will have to be rewritten :-)

Anyway, I did not say there was no perl in /usr/bin. There is one, but 
does not have Warning.pm, maybe it's too old. Hence the test's smoke 
test on perl availability passes, but it is not strict enough.

Anyway, I expected the test to use what's in my path.


Christophe.