Rawley and especially Brian,

I have tried your methods and leaned some good stuff from y'all. Note that I had to export PERL5LIB=../lib if I wanted to prove one file within the t directory.

That aside, the answer was in the Makefile itself, wherein I noticed the code testing for a parameter "TEST_VERBOSE". The make test command I needed to use to see printf output was:

make test TEST_VERBOSE=1 and voila, I see my very verbose printf output.

Thank you all!

-- Jacob S