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| author | Nick Ing-Simmons <nik@tiuk.ti.com> | 1997-04-05 16:04:52 +0100 |
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| committer | Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> | 1997-04-04 00:00:00 +0000 |
| commit | 8b88ae9267370552321fe1d45306b5341068d1e2 (patch) | |
| tree | 72537dafdc5642c708feb27b0210e4379f2d2150 /README.win32 | |
| parent | a1a6880aa21fe16ebd069bf2c4248476cb7c8598 (diff) | |
| download | perl-8b88ae9267370552321fe1d45306b5341068d1e2.tar.gz | |
Fix FindBin under Win32, and document success
private-msgid: 199704051504.QAA09507@ni-s.u-net.com
Signed-off-by: Nick Ing-Simmons <nik@tiuk.ti.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'README.win32')
| -rw-r--r-- | README.win32 | 28 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/README.win32 b/README.win32 index 63763cd33d..0128469d88 100644 --- a/README.win32 +++ b/README.win32 @@ -138,25 +138,16 @@ PATH environment variable to C:\PERL\BIN (or D:\FOO\PERL\BIN). =head2 Testing Type "nmake test". This will run most of the tests from the -testsuite (many tests will be skipped, and a few tests may fail). +testsuite (many tests will be skipped, and but no test should fail). -To get a more detailed breakdown of the tests that failed, -you may want to say: +If some tests do fail, it may be because you are using a different command +shell than the native "cmd.exe". To get a more detailed breakdown of the +tests that failed, you may want to say: cd ..\t .\perl harness -This should produce a summary of the failed tests. Currently, the -only known failure is lib\findbin.t: - - Failed Test Status Wstat Total Fail Failed List of failed - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - lib/findbin.t 1 1 100.00% 1 - Failed 1/151 test scripts, 99.34% okay. 1/3902 subtests failed, 99.97% okay. - - -Check if any additional tests other than the ones shown here -failed, and report them as described under L<BUGS AND CAVEATS>. +Please report any failures as described under L<BUGS AND CAVEATS>. =head1 BUGS AND CAVEATS @@ -164,11 +155,11 @@ This is still very much an experimental port, and should be considered alpha quality software. You can expect changes in virtually all of these areas: build process, installation structure, supported utilities/modules, and supported perl functionality. Specifically, -functionality that supports the Win32 environment may ultimately +functionality specific to the Win32 environment may ultimately be supported as either core modules or extensions. -If you have had prior exposure to Perl on Unix platforms, this port -may exhibit behavior different from what is documented. Most of the +If you have had prior exposure to Perl on Unix platforms, you will notice +this port exhibits behavior different from what is documented. Most of the differences fall under one of these categories. =over 8 @@ -264,7 +255,6 @@ at the time. Nick Ing-Simmons and Gurusamy Sarathy have made numerous and sundry hacks since then. -Last updated: 04 April 1997 +Last updated: 05 April 1997 =cut - |