Homebrew/homebrew — pull request #33119 by mitchty (2014-10-12 15:32:42+00:00)
Title: Add an option to skip make test in perl formula.

So perl make test takes a fairly long amount of time to complete when you compile things. This gives the perl formula an option to skip that when compiling perl.

This would only apply to those building perl from source. Normally skipping the test suite wouldn't make much sense, but if others like living dangerously like I do the options there.

Rough timing differences on a macbook pro retina with a 2.8 i7 proc (source was already downloaded):
🍺 /usr/local/Cellar/perl520/5.20.1: 2249 files, 59M, built in 12.5 minutes

Versus without make test running:
🍺 /usr/local/Cellar/perl520/5.20.1: 2249 files, 59M, built in 100 seconds