Re: [tcltk-perl] info hostname discrepancy

[Gisle A. <gi...@Ac...>]

"Jeff Hobbs" <je...@Ac...> writes:

> We get consistent test failures on some machines in t/info.t on:
> 
> ok($tcl->Eval("info hostname"), hostname);
> 
> where one side returns the 'machine' and the other 'machine.domain.com'.  Is
> there a real reason to even have this test in there?  I can understand the
> 'info nameofexecutable' check, but hostname seems irrelevant for testing the
> bridge.

I added this code at some point.  I just had to test something info
related, and this just try to check if Tcl and Perl manage to agree on
what the hostname is.  Apparently they don't.  Who is wrong?

I'm certainly ok with just removing this test.

--Gisle