Re: ac_

[Gary V. Vaughan]

On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 03:34:41PM +0100, Akim Demaille wrote:
> >>>>> "Gary" == Gary V Vaughan <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> >> There is something I don't understand well: is it normal that make
> >> check fails, but make check VERBOSE=yes works fine?
> 
> Gary> Nope.  That is pretty wierd!  Have you tried a freshly
> Gary> bootstrapped clean source tree?  I get occasional spurious
> Gary> failures if there is any cruft in the demo directories.  
> 
> I guess that's the problem, since running several times the test made
> it work properly in both branches.

Sometimes even rerunning the test doesn't fix the problem -- if there
is detritus in the test install directory for instance, the
?demo-unst.test will always fail.  On the other hand I have only ever
got into this situation by ^C-ing part way through the testsuite.

> Are there any problems with
> running two make checks at the same time (in separate dirs of course)?

Woah!  You are in new territory here, man.  In theory, a pair of
different VPATH builds sharing a source directory shouldn't clash --
but seeing is believing ;-)

> >> This patch removes all the trailing spaces, be sure to keep spaces.
> 
> Gary> Are you referring to the space in '^# ' lines for extracting
> Gary> embedded files?  I fixed the grep expression to accept '^#$'
> Gary> too.  If not, I don't really understand what you mean.
> 
> I meant perl pi.bak -e 's/ +$//'.  I personally use whitespace.el from
> Noah, like many people, to `canonicalize' the code.

I used to use it, but turned it off when I found that it broke libtool
on Cygwin (because of the grep expression used to extract the embedded
sources used on that platform).  Once I understood why (several months
later) I had forgotten that I was no longer using it... I'll edit my
.emacs presently =)O|

Cheers,
        Gary.
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