Hello monks,

I'm trying to submit a patch to the tests for an open-source project, and I'm not quite sure how to proceed. What I have are two test files:

t/test1.t
t/test1_a.t

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The second test file just "calls" the first with a specific set of parameters, so it's entire code is:

system "perl t/test1.t -a qqq -b 1";

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The problem is that test1_a.t should be skipped if a given module is missing. So I tried:

BEGIN {

        $error = 0;

        # foo:bar is required
        eval {
                require foo::bar;
                };
        if ( $@ ) {
                warn "foo::bar is not installed or is installed incorr
+ectly - skipping test1_a.t";
                $error = 1;
                }
        }

exit(0) if ( $error == 1 );
system "perl t/test1.t -a qqq -b 1";

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This doesn't run the tests, but it also doesn't quite work because when I run it through the test harness I get:

t/test1_a......foo::bar is not installed or is installed incorrectly -
+ skipping test1_a.t at t/test1_a.t line 13.
FAILED before any test output arrived

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Whereas what I would like to get is more like:

t/test1_a........................foo::bar is not installed or is insta
+lled incorrectly - skipping test1_a.t

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Can anyone offer guidance here? Hope I've given enough details.

In reply to Skipping a chained test by Anonymous Monk

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