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@@ -522,6 +522,21 @@ If individual tests bomb, you can run them by hand, e.g., ./perl op/groups.t +B<NOTE>: one possible reason for errors is that some external programs +may be broken due to the combination of your environment and the way +C<make test> exercises them. This may happen for example if you have +one or more of these environment variables set: +C<LC_ALL LC_CTYPE LANG>. In certain UNIXes especially the non-English +locales are known to cause programs to exhibit mysterious errors. +If you have any of the above environment variables set, please try +C<setenv LC_ALL C> or <LC_ALL=C;export LC_ALL>, for C<csh>-style and +C<Bourne>-style shells, respectively, from the command line and then +retry C<make test>. If the tests then succeed, you may have a broken +program that is confusing the testing. Please run the troublesome test +by hand as shown above and see whether you can locate the program. +Look for things like: +C<exec, `backquoted command`, system, open("|...")> or C<open("...|")>. +All these mean that Perl is trying to run some external program. =head1 INSTALLING PERL5 =head1 make install |