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Emacs distribution tarball now supports 'make check'
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Paul Eggert |
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Emacs distribution tarball now supports 'make check' |
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Date: |
Thu, 16 May 2019 10:54:52 -0700 |
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On 5/3/19 3:01 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> We've talked before about distributing tests in the Emacs tarball -
> which is what the GNU Codings Standards recommend and what pretty much
> every other GNU package does - and this email suggests that now's a good
> time to do that. Distributing tests adds about 2.5% to the size of the
> compressed tarball, and nowadays that is a small price to pay for making
> tests available to people building from a release tarball rather than a
> Git clone. Proposed patch attached as patch 0002, and comments welcome.
No comments other than Alan's, so I updated that patch with Alan's
comments in mind (the updated version says that 'make check' is intended
mostly to help developers), and installed it into the master branch.