From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 06:31:40 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] t9500: skip gitweb tests if perl version is too old
Message-ID: <7vps3n89mb.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.pobox.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070622154908.GA7946MdfPADPa@greensroom.kotnet.org>

Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org> writes:

> gitweb calls Encode::decode_utf8 with two arguments,
> but old versions of perl only allow this function to be called
> with one argument.  Even older versions of perl do not even
> have an Encode module.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>
> ---
>  t/t9500-gitweb-standalone-no-errors.sh |    6 ++++++
>  1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/t/t9500-gitweb-standalone-no-errors.sh b/t/t9500-gitweb-standalone-no-errors.sh
> index 44ae503..d948724 100755
> --- a/t/t9500-gitweb-standalone-no-errors.sh
> +++ b/t/t9500-gitweb-standalone-no-errors.sh
> @@ -60,6 +60,12 @@ gitweb_run () {
>  
>  . ./test-lib.sh
>  
> +perl -MEncode -e 'decode_utf8("", Encode::FB_CROAK)' >/dev/null 2>&1 || {
> +    test_expect_success 'skipping gitweb tests, perl version is too old' :
> +    test_done
> +    exit
> +}
> +

Hmph.  Even something silly like:

	perl -MEncode -e 'decode_utf8("", Encode::FB_CLUCK)'

seem to succeed for me with 5.8.8.

Maybe you would want "perl -w" there instead?