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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2013-11-08 12:01:58 -0800 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2013-11-08 12:01:58 -0800 |
| commit | cdc0c0f52075e67be432807add1879a0799df583 (patch) | |
| tree | d199a9afc37c8d107c1ec0410cba5aafe3d2db94 /t | |
| parent | 4bc3d3fca0cb3a7845c7b15c7a7649a1202254b4 (diff) | |
| parent | f8fc0ee314d0e0c993d2edac8848a4cfe72c771f (diff) | |
| download | git-cdc0c0f52075e67be432807add1879a0799df583.tar.gz | |
Merge branch 'jn/test-prereq-perl-doc' into maint
The interaction between use of Perl in our test suite and NO_PERL
has been clarified a bit.
* jn/test-prereq-perl-doc:
t/README: tests can use perl even with NO_PERL
Diffstat (limited to 't')
| -rw-r--r-- | t/README | 15 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 4 deletions
@@ -629,11 +629,18 @@ See the prereq argument to the test_* functions in the "Test harness library" section above and the "test_have_prereq" function for how to use these, and "test_set_prereq" for how to define your own. - - PERL & PYTHON + - PYTHON - Git wasn't compiled with NO_PERL=YesPlease or - NO_PYTHON=YesPlease. Wrap any tests that need Perl or Python in - these. + Git wasn't compiled with NO_PYTHON=YesPlease. Wrap any tests that + need Python with this. + + - PERL + + Git wasn't compiled with NO_PERL=YesPlease. + + Even without the PERL prerequisite, tests can assume there is a + usable perl interpreter at $PERL_PATH, though it need not be + particularly modern. - POSIXPERM |