id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc	lang	patch	platform
2095	t/op/spawn.t: failure due to Perl 5 problem	jkeenan		"On a linux/i386 box to which I have some access, I try to test Parrot as much as possible.  On this box, the system Perl is 5.10.0 (some level of Ubuntu) but I use 5.12.0 compiled from source.

I've recently noticed this failure during `make test` (configured with no options):
{{{
t/op/spawnw...............Perl lib version (5.10.0) doesn't 
  match executable version (v5.12.0) at 
  /usr/lib/perl/5.10/Config.pm line 46.
Compilation failed in require.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted.
^Cmake: *** [op_tests] Interrupt
}}}
And at this point, `make test` stops dead.

For reasons I cannot fathom, this test plays around with `env`.  When I remove this nonsense, ''t/op/spawnw.t'' PASSes completely.
{{{
diff --git a/t/op/spawnw.t b/t/op/spawnw.t
index bb48be1..82a4d0b 100644
--- a/t/op/spawnw.t
+++ b/t/op/spawnw.t
@@ -45,15 +45,7 @@ Nigel Sandever - L<nigelsandever@btconnect.com>
 
 # test string version of spawnw
 
-
-my $perl = ""perl"";
-my $perl_exists = `perl -V`;
-unless ($perl_exists) {
-    if( -e ""/usr/bin/env"" ) {
-        $perl = system(""/usr/bin/env perl"");
-    }
-}
-
+my $perl = $^X;
 
 pasm_output_is( <<""CODE"", <<'OUTPUT', ""exit code: 0"" );
 .pcc_sub :main main:
}}}
Would anyone object to my applying this patch before 3.3?

Thank you very much.

kid51"	bug	closed	normal		testing	3.2.0	medium	fixed		whiteknight		new