Re: [PATCH] {yacc-work} tests: cover yacc target-specific flags, and `-v' flag handling

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 09:02:34PM CET:
> On Friday 21 January 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > What make implementation did you test this with?  Was this on a real
> > Solaris,
> >
> Yes, with Solaris 10 XPG4 make (I've just re-checked, JTBS).
> OTOH, the test passes with Solaris CCS make.  Weird.

I always use the CCS one.  Isn't /usr/ccs/bin before
/usr/xpg4/bin in the default PATH anyway, or at least the usual setup?

> > or was this one of the heirloom tools again?  We really don't
> > need to cater to the latter, because nobody uses them in practice.
> >
> Maybe, but they are very very close to their Solaris/OpenSolaris
> counterparts, and very useful for rapid testing.  I agree that we
> souldn't put great efforts in them (in fact, a couple of automake
> tests currently causes Heirlooom make to segfault, but hey, who
> cares), but if we can easily preserve a decent support for them,
> we should.

Okay then, but let's not let them take us hostage.

Cheers,
Ralf