more testsuite smarts (many of them courtesy Ilya)

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@3399

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/t/lib/io_pipe.t b/t/lib/io_pipe.t
index 0c1a498226..bcb89a0daf 100755
--- a/t/lib/io_pipe.t
+++ b/t/lib/io_pipe.t
@@ -11,10 +11,16 @@ use Config;
 
 BEGIN {
     if(-d "lib" && -f "TEST") {
-        if (! $Config{'d_fork'} ||
-	    ($Config{'extensions'} !~ /\bIO\b/ && $^O ne 'VMS'))
-	{
-	    print "1..0\n";
+	my $reason;
+	if (! $Config{'d_fork'}) {
+	    $reason = 'no fork';
+	}
+	elsif ($Config{'extensions'} !~ /\bIO\b/) {
+	    $reason = 'IO extension unavailable';
+	}
+	undef $reason if $^O eq 'VMS';
+	if ($reason) {
+	    print "1..0 # Skip: $reason\n";
 	    exit 0;
         }
     }