This is the simple perl test which has syntax errors:
$ echo 'foo+' > t1.t
$ perl t1.t
syntax error at t1.t line 1, at EOF
Execution of t1.t aborted due to compilation errors.
Is there a way to provide some option to prove
utility to see that error message? Currently if I run that test with prove I can not understand what is wrong with it:
$ prove -v t1.t
Dubious, test returned 255 (wstat 65280, 0xff00)
No subtests run
Test Summary Report
-------------------
t1.t (Wstat: 65280 Tests: 0 Failed: 0)
Non-zero exit status: 255
Parse errors: No plan found in TAP output
Files=1, Tests=0, 0 wallclock secs ( 0.01 usr + 0.00 sys = 0.01 CPU)
Result: FAIL
In my case t1.t
test is much complex (I can not pastebin its code) and I can run it directly with perl
without any problem, but I can not run it by prove
. Because of errors like above. So I am trying to find a way to see actual reason of failing test.
UPD
Detailed debug information: https://pastebin.com/gqMbdTb8
While debugging I found this environment variable
PERL_TEST_HARNESS_DUMP_TAP
. We can set it to some directory name and see a result of testing.Now we can understand what is going wrong with our
t1.t
test.Still I did not find an option/a solution to see that output from
prove
like at @ikegami example: