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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Test 9500 - unhelpful without Perl::CGI
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 19:37:15 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTikj0GQCN94PvZz6n6fJJb5sHMApig@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

This has probably been going on forever, and the only reason I noticed
is that I had a machine that doesn't have perl-CGI installed.

I'm talking about t9500-gitweb-standalone-no-errors.

Anyway, if you don't have that, the test fails at everything, and it
does so without any clues about _why_ it fails. I ended up figuring it
out by doing a "strace -f" to see what seems to be wrong.

Maybe that test could have some additional check for "is perl::CGI
installed at all" and at least give a useful error message rather than
just saying it failed?

                    Linus

             reply	other threads:[~2011-06-15  2:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-15  2:37 Linus Torvalds [this message]
2011-06-15  5:59 ` Test 9500 - unhelpful without Perl::CGI Junio C Hamano
2011-06-15  7:26   ` Sverre Rabbelier
2011-06-15 16:51     ` Junio C Hamano
2011-06-15 17:05       ` Junio C Hamano
2011-06-15 18:36         ` Linus Torvalds

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