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authorMatthew Horsfall (alh) <wolfsage@gmail.com>2014-06-13 09:10:19 -0400
committerMatthew Horsfall (alh) <wolfsage@gmail.com>2014-06-13 09:20:14 -0400
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[perl #121126] - Allow deparse tests to skip/ignore expected failures.
This will allow us to set up a deparse smoker to keep track of B::Deparse's accuracy. With this, the test run: TEST_ARGS=-deparse make test will "pass" currently. If deparsing capabilities get worse, new failures will show up and should be fixed or added to Porting/deparse-skips.txt. If things get fixed, the test will fail noting that something has passed when it shouldn't have, and the test in question should be removed from Porting/deparse-skips.txt. Use the KEEP_DEPARSE_FILES=1 environment setting to have the deparse test files left around after a test run for examination/re-running.
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@@ -124,6 +124,10 @@ F<perldelta*> files.
Generates info for Module::CoreList from this perl tree.
+=head2 F<deparse-skips.txt>
+
+List of test files to ignore/skip for deparse tests.
+
=head2 F<epigraphs.pod>
List of Perl release epigraphs.