Re: Otherwise successful test fails under test

Since the output is going through a pipe to a summarizing program, I'm not surprised that IO::Pager doesn't even try to launch a pager and so it doesn't fail because it never even checks whether $ENV{PAGER} is set.

- tye

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Re^2: Otherwise successful test fails under test_harness (-t) by belg4mit (Prior) on Feb 12, 2012 at 03:45 UTC
While cryptic, and not exactly correct—see the UPDATE appended to my post before I received this reply, in short: there is no launching of a pager—this did get me to insert some print statements and compare the output in the two scenarios. The heart of the problem was indeed the lack of TTY, and a cryptic line from 8 years ago that I no longer grok the intent of: `# This allows us to have multiple pseudo-STDOUT return 0 unless -t STDOUT;` [download] Thanks! `-- In Bob We Trust, All Others Bring Data.`	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^2: Otherwise successful test fails under test_harness (-t)
by belg4mit (Prior) on Feb 12, 2012 at 03:45 UTC

# This allows us to have multiple pseudo-STDOUT
return 0 unless -t STDOUT;
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