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Re: Problems with "make check"


On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 09:25:54AM -0700, Tom Tromey wrote:
> >>>>> "Phil" == Phil Edwards <phil at jaj dot com> writes:
> 
> Phil> You're not the first.  :-) It would require a one-line change to
> Phil> automake's $share/am/dejagnu.am, and I'm not sure what else.
> 
> That should be it.  However, that's automake 1.4.  I doubt the current
> maintainer would want to do another 1.4.x release.  libgcj already has
> a mini-fork though; you could put it there.

I was looking at /usr/share/automake-1.7/am/dejagnu.am.

> This seems backwards now.  I mean, wouldn't you want a failure if you
> can't run the tests?  So that you know they didn't get run?

*shrug*  Some of the dejangu philosophy escapes me.  I don't know how much
of it is imposed by the POSIX test-framework specification, and how much
is just dejagnu.


Phil

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