Re: [PATCH] add tests for vc-list-files

[Jim Meyering]

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> wrote:
> Jim Meyering wrote:
>> ... possibly get a test failure.  Such a failure doesn't
>> really matter in general -- most people don't run "make syntax-check"
>> or "make distcheck" -- so a test failure here is most definitely no
>> cause for alarm
>
> I routinely use "gnulib-tool --create-testdir --with-tests" as a tarball
> for testing on all kinds of platforms. It contains all available modules
> (except the very few ones which are known to conflict with other modules).
>
> Therefore, in general, every test should succeed, also in the presence of
> all other modules.

Absolutely.  I tried to do that yesterday, but didn't
figure out why $(abs_top_srcdir) wasn't a parent of build-aux.
Today I've worked around that with the new abs_aux_dir variable.

> What are the known situations in which the vc-list-files tests will fail?

None.