test: drop perl requirement

Since perl is used in just one place and can easily be replaced by a
little bit of shell, do so.  This makes testing on limited systems
easier.

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>

diff --git a/INSTALL.txt b/INSTALL.txt
index 256beabc4130ca7c692dc8cc5b6007fe0c016354..f77cbe6764736d6db5cfeafeddf94889a5881637 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL.txt
+++ b/INSTALL.txt
@@ -67,7 +67,6 @@ In addition to the prerequisites mentioned above, you also need:
 
 To debug and run the performance test suite you'll also need:
 
-- Perl (http://www.perl.org/)
 - Python (http://www.python.org/)
 
 Run "./autogen.sh" and then follow the steps mentioned under "Installation"

diff --git a/test.sh b/test.sh
index f14e287dda33a0589b3c478125782a467f9abdc9..1090649b28fa4329e7b74be644566ac43c6b5d84 100755 (executable)
--- a/test.sh
+++ b/test.sh
@@ -1834,7 +1834,7 @@ prepare_cleanup_test() {
     mkdir -p $dir
     i=0
     while [ $i -lt 10 ]; do
-        perl -e 'print "A" x 4017' >$dir/result$i-4017.o
+        printf '%4017s' '' | tr ' ' 'A' >$dir/result$i-4017.o
         touch $dir/result$i-4017.stderr
         touch $dir/result$i-4017.d
         if [ $i -gt 5 ]; then