Automating tests before a CVS commit

EvdB has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Before commiting files to my CVS repository I would like some checks to be run:

# Todo before commiting for *.pl, *.pm, *.PL
perl -c $file
perltidy -b $file
./Build test
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I seem to remember that this can be done but cannot find anything here or on Google that helps. I'm probably not using the right jargon. Does anyone have a way to do this and are there other things that should be done before a commit?

update: Sod's law: Automating tests before a CVS commit. Still interested in other things that could/should be done before a commit.

--tidiness is the memory loss of environmental mnemonics

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