several improvements to the dist-modules CI target and fixes to the problems they found

1 files changed, 28 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/.github/workflows/testsuite.yml b/.github/workflows/testsuite.yml
index f57f6a3aa0..cc23e6cd0e 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/testsuite.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/testsuite.yml
@@ -801,9 +801,35 @@ jobs:
       image: perldocker/perl-tester:${{ matrix.perl-version }}
 
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v1
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
       - name: perl -V
         run: perl -V
       - name: Build and test dist modules
         run:
-          perl Porting/test-dist-modules.pl
+          perl Porting/test-dist-modules.pl -continue
+
+  dist-modules-sys-macos:
+    name: "Test dist/ modules on MacOS system perl"
+    needs: sanity_check
+    runs-on: macos-11
+    if: (! cancelled() && (needs.sanity_check.outputs.run_all_jobs == 'true' || needs.sanity_check.outputs.ci_force_dist_modules == 'true'))
+
+    env:
+      # some plugins still needs this to run their tests...
+      # these don't really matter, but might later
+      PERL_USE_UNSAFE_INC: 0
+      AUTHOR_TESTING: 1
+      AUTOMATED_TESTING: 1
+      RELEASE_TESTING: 1
+
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      - name: perl -V
+        run: /usr/bin/perl -V
+      - name: Build and test dist modules
+        run:
+          /usr/bin/perl Porting/test-dist-modules.pl -continue -separate
+