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Re: t9700-perl-git.sh is broken on some configurations

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Dennis Kaarsemaker <dennis@kaarsemaker.net>
Date
Mar 4, 2016, 10:58 UTC
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On vr, 2016-03-04 at 03:56 -0500, Jeff King wrote:
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> ? Those are just guesses, but if we are tickling a bug in perl's parser,
> this might avoid them. I also wondered when "/r" appeared. It was in
> 5.14, so you're presumably good there. The "use" statement at the top of
> the script says "5.008", so perhaps we should be writing it out longhand
> anyway (that version is "only" 5 years old, so I suspect there are still
> systems around with 5.12 or older).

Knowing the system Christian is testing on, I think the problem is that the tests are actually being run against perl 5.10, which RHEL 6 ships as system perl. As that's still a supported OS, writing tests in a form compatible with it would be a good thing :)

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Message 5 of 10 in “t9700-perl-git.sh is broken on some configurations”
  1. Christian CouderMar 4, 2016
  2. Jeff KingMar 4, 2016
  3. Christian CouderMar 4, 2016
  4. Jeff KingMar 4, 2016
  5. Dennis KaarsemakerMar 4, 2016
  6. t9700: fix test for perl older than 5.14Jeff King, Mar 4, 2016
  7. Dennis KaarsemakerMar 4, 2016
  8. Christian CouderMar 4, 2016
  9. Johannes SchindelinMar 4, 2016
  10. Junio C HamanoMar 4, 2016

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