[Patch, fortran] PR28585: Add Fortran 2003 NEW_LINE intrinsic function

Brooks Moses bmoses@stanford.edu
Mon Oct 9 01:58:00 GMT 2006


FX Coudert wrote:
> 2. when submitting a patch, we need to know what is the extent of  
> your testing. The usual minimal testing is "built and regression- 
> tested on [build-triplet]", if you have run the testsuite for the  
> freshly built compiler; for doc changes, you probably also want to  
> "make info && make html" to be sure TeXinfo accepts your changes (and  
> mention that).

That's actually insufficient for .texi changes.  The info and html files 
are both produced by makeinfo (that's the name of the program; don't 
confuse it with "make info", which calls it!) with different flags, and 
thus it's unlikely that one will find errors that the other doesn't.

However, the dvi files are produced by texi2pdf, which handles a number 
of things quite differently, and often has errors that don't show up in 
the html or info production.

Thus, a reasonable minimum amount of testing for the documentation is 
"make dvi" and either "make info" or "make html".  Of course, to be 
fully certain you can run all three, but if you're only doing two, "dvi" 
is not the one to drop.

- Brooks



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