From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:00:41 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add test-tr: poor-man tr
Message-ID: <20080613180041.GA8921@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20080613172634.GB5671@steel.home>

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 07:26:34PM +0200, Alex Riesen wrote:

> > Does ActiveState respect the PERLIO environment variable? I haven't
> > played with it much, but my understanding is that setting
> > PERLIO=:unix:perlio should give you sane behavior (the default on
> > Windows should be PERLIO=:unix:crlf).
> 
> I didn't know about it (and managed to miss it when I looked to
> workaround the problem. I even looked into the manpage documenting
> environment variables!)
> 
> Yes, it works. It has side effects (the scripts of some build
> processes will be affected), but that's already something...

I was thinking that we could set it inside test-lib.sh to get consistent
behavior. It should just be a no-op on sane systems.

-Peff