I'm trying to pass some parameters to a test script through the prove
command. Based on some old threads where is option was hashed out, and the content's of my prove's man
page (quoted below), using :: before the options should work, but prove is still parsing the test script's option as it's own:
$
prove -v t/040-unit-object-test.t :: --unit 270149
Unknown option: unit
Here the relevant part of the man page:
Arguments to Tests It is possible to supply arguments to tests. To do so separate them from prove's own arguments with the arisdottle, '::'. For example prove -v t/mytest.t :: --url http://example.com would run t/mytest.t with the options '--url http://example.com'. When running multiple tests they will each receive the same arguments.
I tried using sudo
to run the option as root, but got the same error.
I am using the Getopt::Long module to get the options, and the options work when I run the test script using plain old perl
, but then my SKIP and TODO blocks don't work.
I would rather not have to use the --exec
workaround.
I'm running Perl 5.10 on Mac OS 10.6.
The output of prove -V
is:
prove v2.64, using Test::Harness v3.25 and Perl v5.10.0
Well, you must have two versions of prove
in your $PATH, an old one from 2006 from before App::Prove existed
I suggest you delete that one, and re-install App::Prove