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From: jb3o+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jon Allen Boone)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Help with op.exec test
Message-ID: <Ibd5L7a00j694d6gdN@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: 28 Jan 91 16:48:07 GMT
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Lines: 43


Hi.  My perl compilation on a Dec3100/Ultrix 3.1 box has passed all
the tests except op.exec.  It fails on test 1 (according to make test)
and returns the following when run manually.

----- op.exec output -----
1..8
ok 1
not ok 1
ok 2
not ok 2
ok 3
not ok 3
not ok 4
not ok 5
not ok 6
ok 7
ok 8
----- op.exec output -----

My question is "what is the purpose of op.exec?"  That is to say, what
is it testing?  For instance, test 1 is:

print "not ok 1\n" if system "echo ok \\1";     # shell interpreted

why is perl not ok if a system call "echo ok \\1" works?

I'm horribly confused.  (I'm sorry if this is a simple question
aswerale by RTFMing the man pages.)


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