Comments on: Codependent testing with -Mylib http://www.dagolden.com/index.php/77/codependent-testing-with-mylib/ Whatever comes to mind Mon, 23 Jan 2012 03:43:41 +0000 hourly 1 By: Matt S Trout http://www.dagolden.com/index.php/77/codependent-testing-with-mylib/comment-page-1/#comment-15 Matt S Trout Tue, 05 May 2009 11:38:43 +0000 http://www.dagolden.com/?p=77#comment-15 I've already fought this fight with local::lib - the answer is to just say sod it and generate a PERL5LIB env var. So if you were to make ylib.pm do something similar, you'd maybe have a usage of: <code> eval $(perl -Mylib=export_perl5lib) make test </code> or whatever. If it's in PERL5LIB it gets unrolled into -I switches by Test::Harness automatically which means apart from the very occasional buggy test that uses taint, re-executes $^X itself, -and- forgets to unroll PERL5LIB into -I switches. And we people using local::lib have been slowly shaking those out and getting them fixed anyway :) I've already fought this fight with local::lib - the answer is to just say sod it and generate a PERL5LIB env var. So if you were to make ylib.pm do something similar, you'd maybe have a usage of:


eval $(perl -Mylib=export_perl5lib)
make test

or whatever. If it's in PERL5LIB it gets unrolled into -I switches by Test::Harness automatically which means apart from the very occasional buggy test that uses taint, re-executes $^X itself, -and- forgets to unroll PERL5LIB into -I switches. And we people using local::lib have been slowly shaking those out and getting them fixed anyway :)

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