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Monday July 28, 2008

09:49 AM

[ #37030 ]

Maybe not a definitive list, but this is what I have gleamed:

AUTOMATED_TESTING - Set by an automated CPAN Tester to indicate, erm, that we are running automated tests.
PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT - Set so that we take the defaults to prompts in Makefile.PL and Build.PL
PERL5_CPAN_IS_RUNNING - CPAN.pm appears to set this to process ID of the CPAN process.
PERL5_CPANPLUS_IS_RUNNING - CPANPLUS sets this to the process ID of the CPANPLUS process, note also check PERL5_CPAN_IS_RUNNING, as CPAN also sets this variable
PERL5_CPANPLUS_IS_VERSION - Set by CPANPLUS to indicate the version that is running
PERL5_CPANPLUS_VERBOSE - Set by CPANPLUS to indicate whether it is generating verbose output

Kindly pointed out by Dave Golden:

PERL5OPT - used by CPAN::Reporter to load Devel::Autoflush to force output from PL and test files that don't set autoflush themselves. (This has been a headache and is still in active development to find a workable solution.)
PERL5LIB - may or may not be set, depending on the test setup
PERL_CPAN_REPORTER_DIR - if set, this directory is used in place of the default .cpanreporter directory; this will affect not only the location of the default config.ini, but also the location of the CPAN::Reporter::History database and any other files that live in that directory
PERL_CPAN_REPORTER_CONFIG - if set, this file is used in place of the default config.ini file; it may be in any directory, regardless of the choice of configuration directory

PERL5_CPANPLUS_IS_EXECUTING -- set by CPANPLUS to the full path of either Build.PL or Makefile.PL while it's executing this file. This helps Module::Install understand that it is running under CPANPLUS and can delegate prereqs up to the parent process

TEST_POD - enables testing of documentation
TEST_AUTHOR - in a few cases this enables testing in general
PERL_TEST_POD - another name to enable documentation tests
PERL_TEST_CRITIC - used to enable critic testing
AUTHOR_TESTING - a few authors hide tests with this, mostly documentation tests

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by dagolden (6584)

PERL5OPT -- used by CPAN::Reporter to load Devel::Autoflush to force output from PL and test files that don't set autoflush themselves. (This has been a headache and is still in active development to find a workable solution.)
PERL5LIB -- may or may not be set, depending on the test setup
PERL_CPAN_REPORTER_DIR -- if set, this directory is used in place of the default .cpanreporter directory; this will affect not only the location of the default config.ini, but also the location of the CPAN::Reporter::His
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  by kane (2600)
  
  PERL5_CPANPLUS_IS_EXECUTING -- set by CPANPLUS to the full path of either Build.PL or Makefile.PL while it's executing this file. This helps Module::Install understand that it is running under CPANPLUS and can delegate prereqs up to the parent process
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by janus (3624)

TEST_POD - enables testing of documentation
TEST_AUTHOR - in a few cases this enables testing in general
PERL_TEST_POD - another name to enable documentation tests
PERL_TEST_CRITIC - used to enable critic testing
AUTHOR_TESTING - a few authors hide tests with this, mostly documentation tests
Wikified (Score:1)

by ChrisDolan (2855)

I posted these on the Perl5 wiki [perlfoundation.org]. Thanks for accumulating this list!