How do I pass command line args to test module?

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello, I'm writing a module and would like to test it with tests in t/. I need to pass each test the same command line argument. Is there an entry I can make in Makefile.PL that will pass the arg or do I need to write a mother test script that evals the other test scripts? TIA. TG

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Re: How do I pass command line args to test module? by thraxil (Prior) on Oct 06, 2001 at 20:36 UTC
you'll probably want to look into Test::Harness for this kind of thing. anders pearson	[reply]
Re: How do I pass command line args to test module? by Anonymous Monk on Oct 06, 2001 at 22:38 UTC
I figured it out!!! In the script prior to testing for command line args, I set them via the following: @ARGV = qw(blah); It seems to work as I wish it to. TG	[reply]
Re: How do I pass command line args to test module? by Anonymous Monk on Oct 06, 2001 at 20:46 UTC
I appreciate your input but... I did look at Test::Harness and found: The global variable $Test::Harness::switches is exportable and can be used to set perl command line options used for running the test script(s). The default value is `-w'. which I don't think is going to do what I want it to do. My understanding is that $Test::Harness::switches = "-w blah" would result in perl -w blah t/test.t not perl -w t/test.t blah < this is what I want Also, I want to set a variable in Makefile.PL that will set a variable in Makefile to be used by make test.	[reply]


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