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

[Gavin Smith]

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.