[Cpan2rpm-general] Patch: Suppress MY->fixin for test cases to prevent breaking of unit tests

[Gino L. L. <gle...@gm...>]

Hi, all

I've been rebuilding a number of CPAN packages into RPM lately while
transitioning from EL4 to EL5 and I noticed I had several SRPMS/spec
files call for "--make-no-test". Upon closer investigation, this was
mostly due to test cases failing because of line mismatches in the
expected output. Some unit tests expect to read back the output at a
specific line number in the test file, but these break under cpan2rpm
because of the call to the ExtUtils::MY->fixin() call. This is
inserted in every spec file prior to calling the Makefile.PL to fix
any file (excluding *.bak) that references #!.*perl.

I've attached a patch which exposes the following run-time options to cpan2rpm:
--no-perlloc-fix
--no-test-perlloc-fix

The former suppresses the call to MY->fixin entirely. The latter only
suppresses the call to MY->fixin() for the following file patterns:
- files in t/*
- files in tests/*
- files ending in ".t"

The patch was generated against cpan2rpm 2.028.

Hope this helps.

- gino