From 06aa495b2e26cd6963648651410909a6682df5b9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Mitchell Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 23:09:01 +0100 Subject: INSTALL: mention that env vars can affect tests --- INSTALL | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) (limited to 'INSTALL') diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 89707cf6c4..308ffff863 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -1401,6 +1401,18 @@ The latter is especially useful if you see something like this at Perl startup. +=item other environment variables + +Configure does not check for environment variables that can sometimes +have a major influence on how perl is built or tested. For example, +OBJECT_MODE on AIX determines the way the compiler and linker deal with +their objects, but this is a variable that only influences build-time +behaviour, and should not affect the perl scripts that are eventually +executed by the perl binary. Other variables, like PERL_UNICODE, +PERL5LIB, and PERL5OPTS will influence the behaviour of the test suite. +So if you are getting strange test failures, you may want to try +retesting with the various PERL variables unset. + =item varargs If you get varargs problems with gcc, be sure that gcc is installed -- cgit v1.2.1