in reply to make test and File::Spec problems

The documentation for File::Spec::catpath specifies:

Takes volume, directory and file portions and returns an entire path. Under Unix, $volume is ignored, and directory and file are concatenated. A ’/’ is inserted if need be. On other OSes, $volume is significant.

    $full_path = File::Spec->catpath( $volume, $directory, $file );

The call in your script is missing the third parameter $file, so the catpath method is using an undefined value in the concatenation. If you change the line to

    File::Spec->catpath("","/usr/bin", "");

then you will not get the warnings.

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Re^2: make test and File::Spec problems
by Dirk80 (Pilgrim) on Jun 29, 2012 at 21:48 UTC

    Thank you. I'm sure that's the reason for the warnings. And I'd like to try it. But I first have to find out how to downgrade the module Test::Harness from 3.25 back to 3.23.

    UPDATE

    Downgraded to Test::Harness 3.23 with the following command within the cpan shell:

    install ANDYA/Test-Harness-3.23.tar.gz

    Then I checked that the correct version is installed with:

    perl -MTest::Harness -e 'print "$Test::Harness::VERSION\n"'

    Then I updated the line in the test script. And you are right. The warnings are gone now also when I'm using Test::Harness Version 3.23.

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