Tests depend on locale

This is (sort of) documented in INSTALL.  But you are right,
the tests should force the LC_ALL to be 'C'.  Note: LANG is
not enough, and neither is POSIX as readily available as C.
Here are the patches:

p5p-msgid: 199705191230.PAA21070@alpha.hut.fi
Signed-off-by: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>

diff --git a/t/lib/safe2.t b/t/lib/safe2.t
index feaab16..40c5098 100755 (executable)
--- a/t/lib/safe2.t
+++ b/t/lib/safe2.t
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ BEGIN {
         print "1..0\n";
         exit 0;
     }
+  # test 30 rather naughtily expects English error messages
+  $ENV{'LC_ALL'} = 'C';
 }
 
 # Tests Todo:

diff --git a/t/op/mkdir.t b/t/op/mkdir.t
index 5a6dfe5..d475703 100755 (executable)
--- a/t/op/mkdir.t
+++ b/t/op/mkdir.t
@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ print "1..7\n";
 
 $^O eq 'MSWin32' ? `del /s /q blurfl 2>&1` : `rm -rf blurfl`;
 
+# tests 3 and 7 rather naughtily expect English error messages
+$ENV{'LC_ALL'} = 'C';
+
 print (mkdir('blurfl',0777) ? "ok 1\n" : "not ok 1\n");
 print (mkdir('blurfl',0777) ? "not ok 2\n" : "ok 2\n");
 print ($! =~ /exist/ ? "ok 3\n" : "not ok 3\n");