I don't know Module::Install, but a more portable Unix way to write: export MATH_ROUND_FAIR_DEBUG=1
is: MATH_ROUND_FAIR_DEBUG=1;export MATH_ROUND_FAIR_DEBUG The former abbreviated syntax was introduced in the Korn shell, while the latter works with both the Korn shell and the original Bourne shell (bash is Korn-shell derived). Of course this is Unix-shell specific and may not work on non-Unix platforms. HTH, /-\ ----- Original Message ---- From: Marc Mims <m...@questright.com> To: module-authors@perl.org Sent: Thu, 16 December, 2010 12:16:14 PM Subject: Setting an environment variable for tests I recently released a new version of Math::Round::Fair. Anders Johnson provided several in situ tests that we optimized out at compile time using Devel::Assert. They can be turned on by setting an environment variable: MATH_ROUND_FAIR_DEBUG=1 I wanted the assertions enabled when "make test" runs without having to explicitly set the variable in each test. And I found a way to do that, using Module::Install's "preamble": ぴreamble "export MATH_ROUND_FAIR_DEBUG=1\n"; That works for Linux systems, but seems to be failing on other platforms: http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/28e28ab0-0825-11e0-bb29-ad544afd17af http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/68705c5e-086e-11e0-bb29-ad544afd17af So, how *should* I be doing this? -Marc
