[dpkg] 16/187: build: Specify exec argument for TAP::Harness

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commit 4ccdc11f30a1a5a87f0172449ffce546275c6dc5
Author: Guillem Jover <guillem at debian.org>
Date:   Mon Sep 12 02:03:35 2016 +0200

    build: Specify exec argument for TAP::Harness
    
    Older versions of TAP::Harness do not handle non-perl executables. So
    check if the test has the executable bits, and return an arrayref to
    use it, otherwise return undef to use the perl interpreter.
---
 check.am         | 2 ++
 debian/changelog | 2 ++
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/check.am b/check.am
index c902a40..48e4a26 100644
--- a/check.am
+++ b/check.am
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ TEST_PARALLEL ?= 1
 
 TEST_RUNNER = '\
 	my $$harness = TAP::Harness->new({ \
+	    exec => sub { my (undef, $$test) = @_; \
+	                  return -x $$test ? [ $$test ] : undef }, \
 	    lib => [ "$(top_srcdir)/scripts", "$(top_srcdir)/dselect/methods"  ], \
 	    color => 1, \
 	    verbosity => $(TEST_VERBOSE), \
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index ec86816..da95cf2 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ dpkg (1.18.11) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
       when some unrelated warning needs to be emitted.
     - Bump po4a version to 0.43 (we are using --porefs wrap option).
     - Add support for running the test suite in parallel.
+    - Specify exec argument for TAP::Harness to gracefully handle non-perl
+      executables with older versions of the module.
 
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