Re: PATCH: Let Test::Harness bail out early (Was: Testing module dependencies)

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p4raw-id: //depot/perl@8069

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/t/UTEST b/t/UTEST
index 9c1dfc0d80..1be1a5bbef 100755
--- a/t/UTEST
+++ b/t/UTEST
@@ -127,6 +127,9 @@ EOT
 		    $next = $1, $ok = 0, last if /^not ok ([0-9]*)/;
 		    if (/^ok (\d+)(\s*#.*)?$/ && $1 == $next) {
 			$next = $next + 1;
+                    }
+                    elsif (/^Bail out!\s*(.*)/i) { # magic words
+                        die "FAILED--Further testing stopped" . ($1 ? ": $1\n" : ".\n");
 		    }
 		    else {
 			$ok = 0;