Likely to hang during installation if Vim is compiled against a different perl than the one in $PATH (e.g. perlbrew)

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Vim throws a “Press ENTER or type command to continue” prompt and waits.

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Oh. I was going to file a separate bug for it failing to find Module::Locate during installation, but now I see they are the same bug – the failure to find Module::Locate is the cause of Vim pausing to show the prompt.

And as far as I can tell the reason that happens is that Module::Locate is being installed in my perlbrew perl whereas Vim was compiled against the system perl, which does not have Module::Locate installed.

How about making Vim invoke a Perl script that uses Perl::Tags, instead of just saying a prayer and hoping that Vim is compiled with perl support and links to the right perl to be able to load Perl::Tags directly? (After all, a Vim without a compiled-in Perl interpreter can load Perl::Tags-generated tag files just as well.)

That’s if there even ought to be Vim-based tests at all. I think they belong in the accompanying Vim plugin, not the test suite for this module, which is not itself a Vim plugin after all.

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