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Test 9500 - unhelpful without Perl::CGI

From
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date
Jun 15, 2011, 02:37 UTC
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This has probably been going on forever, and the only reason I noticed is that I had a machine that doesn't have perl-CGI installed.

I'm talking about t9500-gitweb-standalone-no-errors.

Anyway, if you don't have that, the test fails at everything, and it does so without any clues about _why_ it fails. I ended up figuring it out by doing a "strace -f" to see what seems to be wrong.

Maybe that test could have some additional check for "is perl::CGI installed at all" and at least give a useful error message rather than just saying it failed?

                    Linus
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