Re: [Perlunit-users] perl unit availability

[Adam S. <ad...@sp...>]

Bret Pettichord (br...@pe...) wrote:
> I haven't used perl in a while and i've decided that i want to use a junit 
> style test harness now that i'm going back to it.
> 
> Reading c2.com and the discussion here makes me think that test-unit must 
> be the definitive package for this. Thus i'm confused as to why it isn't 
> included in activestate's ppm repostitories. Any suggestions for why this 
> is so?

Probably because noone has tried running it under ActiveState before
(or maybe they did, but kept it to themselves).  I can't remember
exactly.  Is there any reference to Win32 in the archives for this
list or perlunit-devel?

> I've been able to install all the prerequisites using PPM, but, like i 
> said, Test-Unit isn't in the default repositories. I did find a copy of 
> Test-Unit.PPM but when i tried to install it with PPM, i got this error: 
> Error: no suitable installation target found for package Test-Unit. The 
> problem seems to be that i'm using Perl 5.8.
> 
> I did try a manual install, but ran into this problem.
> 
> >Administrator@LAKATOS /cygdrive/e/Test-Unit-0.24
> >$ make install
> >Makefile:749: *** missing separator.  Stop.
> 
> Line 749 is the third to last line of this section:
> 
> ># --- MakeMaker pm_to_blib section:
> >
> >pm_to_blib: $(TO_INST_PM)
> >        @$(PERLRUNINST) -MExtUtils::Install \
> >        -e "pm_to_blib(qw[ <<pmfiles.dat 
> >],'$(INST_LIB)\auto','$(PM_FILTER)')"
> >
> >$(PM_TO_BLIB)
> ><<
> >                @$(TOUCH) $@
> 
> Should i go back to perl 5.6?

I don't think it's ever been tried properly with anything other than
5.6 although the above is more likely to be an incompatability in the
Cygwin version of make than anything else.

> >Should i go back to perl 5.6?
> 
> Well, i tried this. PPM says that Test-Unit is now available, but i still 
> can't seem to install it with PPM successfully.

What goes wrong?