Re: recent debian perl tests failures without . in @INC

[Patrice Dumas]

On Sat, Sep 02, 2017 at 02:14:59PM +0100, Gavin Smith wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 02:37:57PM +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> > Another possibility could be to replace that line by a call to
> > ModulePath, like what is done in tests not depending on t/test_utils.pl,
> > like 
> > 
> > BEGIN {
> >   require Texinfo::ModulePath;
> >   Texinfo::ModulePath::init(undef, undef, 'updirs' => 2);
> > }
> > 
> > ModulePath will add 'top_srcdir'/tp tp @INC allowing to find
> > t/test_utils.pl.
> 
> Is there any way of testing this without installing a new version of 
> perl? I tried using taint mode ("perl -T") but this breaks for other 
> reasons.

At least on debian, you can add this line in /etc/perl/sitecustomize.pl:

pop @INC if $INC[-1] eq '.' and !$ENV{PERL_USE_UNSAFE_INC};