i ran into an interesting problem last night when trying to test a new distribution. i know the standard download tarball, unzip, perl Makefile.PL, etc steps, but when running  make test the tests used the old version rather than the new version.

sample output of the tests: 

PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" "test_h
+arness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t
t/01_ini..........................ok
t/02_bad_constructor..............Odd number of elements in hash assig
+nment at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/ExtUtils/ModuleMaker.pm
+ line 232.

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where the test output indicates usage of a previously installed version, while all of my new distro source is in  /opt/source/perl/

i'm not clear on what the  UNINST=1 flag would do, but for now, i don't want to install the new dist, just make sure it passes all the tests ...

i must be missing something obvious.

UPDATE:
more for posterity than anything else, i got an answer of sorts to this on another mailing list (perl-qa).

older versions of ExtUtils::MakeMaker used relative paths in @INC ... so any tests w/ a chdir lose ./blib/lib in @INC, and tests will use a previously installed version (if it can be found in @INC) or fail outright.

In reply to "make test" problems with previously installed module by geektron

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