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authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2021-11-21 11:49:16 -0500
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2021-11-21 11:49:16 -0500
commit92e70796e91e2f9086fad0156e0e91513e54a66b (patch)
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parent405f32fc49609eb94fa39e7b5e7c1fe2bb2b73aa (diff)
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Doc: update some things relevant to minimum Test::More version.
Oversights in commit 405f32fc4. Also, add a tip (discovered the hard way) about getting Test::More 0.98 to pass its regression tests on recent Linux platforms.
Diffstat (limited to 'src')
-rw-r--r--src/test/perl/PostgreSQL/Test/Utils.pm3
-rw-r--r--src/test/perl/README5
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/src/test/perl/PostgreSQL/Test/Utils.pm b/src/test/perl/PostgreSQL/Test/Utils.pm
index 5a7f8bcb974..378d3f7bc1b 100644
--- a/src/test/perl/PostgreSQL/Test/Utils.pm
+++ b/src/test/perl/PostgreSQL/Test/Utils.pm
@@ -58,8 +58,7 @@ use File::Temp ();
use IPC::Run;
use PostgreSQL::Test::SimpleTee;
-# specify a recent enough version of Test::More to support the
-# done_testing() function
+# We need a version of Test::More recent enough to support subtests
use Test::More 0.98;
our @EXPORT = qw(
diff --git a/src/test/perl/README b/src/test/perl/README
index 919d4a82799..9e870830cfc 100644
--- a/src/test/perl/README
+++ b/src/test/perl/README
@@ -110,10 +110,13 @@ perlbrew; see http://perlbrew.pl . After installing that, do
perlbrew --force install 5.8.3
perlbrew use 5.8.3
perlbrew install-cpanm
- cpanm install Test::Simple@0.87_01
+ cpanm install Test::Simple@0.98
cpanm install IPC::Run@0.79
cpanm install ExtUtils::MakeMaker@6.50 # downgrade
+TIP: if Test::Simple's utf8 regression test hangs up, try setting a
+UTF8-compatible locale, e.g. "export LANG=en_US.utf8".
+
Then re-run Postgres' configure to ensure the correct Perl is used when
running tests. To verify that the right Perl was found: