how does use in make test work for a non-installed module

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

without any alterations of PERL5LIB, or a use lib command, or an alteration of @INC, the make test attempts to use the module I am actually testing before installing:

BEGIN { $| = 1; print "1..2\n"; }
END {print "not ok 1\n" unless $loaded;}
use HTTP::File;
$loaded = 1;
print "ok 1\n";
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that does not seem reasonable.

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Re: how does use in make test work for a non-installed module by takshaka (Friar) on May 27, 2000 at 02:24 UTC
Note that 'make test' ne 'perl test.pl'. 'make test' executes test.pl with the -I switch described by mikfire, which pushes onto @INC the blib/* directories created by 'make'.	[reply]
Re: how does use in make test work for a non-installed module by mikfire (Deacon) on May 27, 2000 at 00:18 UTC
From perldoc perlrun `-Idirectory Directories specified by -I are prepended to the search path for modules (@INC), and also tells the C preprocessor where to search for include files. The C preprocessor is invoked with -P; by default it searches /usr/include and /usr/lib/perl.` [download] Mik mikfire ( perlus bigotus maximus )	[reply] [d/l]
Re: how does use in make test work for a non-installed module by KM (Priest) on May 26, 2000 at 23:58 UTC
Well, you want to test the module before installing it. If it was to fail, why would you want to install it? How does this not seem reasonable? It works as advertised. Cheers, KM	[reply]