Hi,

On Fri, 2 Sep 2016, Matthieu Moy wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > Hi Ævar,
> >
> > On Fri, 2 Sep 2016, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> >
> >> On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 5:05 PM, Johannes Schindelin
> >> <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> >>
> >> > The biggest problem with Strawberry Perl is that it is virtually
> >> > impossible to build the Subversion-Perl bindings using the Git for
> >> > Windows SDK when using Strawberry Perl.
> >> >
> >> > Which pretty much precludes it from being used in Git for Windows.
> >> >
> >> > And then there are the path issues... Git's Perl scripts are pretty
> >> > certain that they live in a POSIX-y environment. Which MSYS2 Perl
> >> > provides. Strawberry Perl not.
> >> 
> >> This might be me missing the point, and I'm really just trying to be
> >> helpful here and make "prove" work for you because it's awesome, but
> >> as far as just you running this for development purposes does any of
> >> this SVN stuff matter? I.e. you can build Git itself not with
> >> Strawberry, but just use Strawberry to get a working copy of "prove".
> >
> > Yes, the SVN stuff matters, because of the many t9*svn* tests (which, BTW
> > take a substantial time to run). So if I run the test suite, I better do
> > it with a perl.exe in the PATH that can run the SVN tests. Otherwise I
> > might just as well not bother with running the entire test suite...
> 
> Maybe something like
> 
> \path\to\strawberry-perl\perl.exe \path\to\prove ...
> 
> without changing the PATH would work. I wouldn't call that convenient
> though.

Wouldn't Perl-specific environment variables set by Strawberry Perl (such
as PERL_PATH bleed through to the spawned child processes?

We're dancing around the issue, really. Rather than piling workaround on
workaround with no end in sight, I think it is time to admit that using
prove(1) on Windows is just not a good solution for the problem to re-run
failed tests.

Ciao,
Johannes