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Re: [FYI] distlinksbrk.test: Work around botched "make -k".
From: |
Ralf Wildenhues |
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Re: [FYI] distlinksbrk.test: Work around botched "make -k". |
Date: |
Tue, 21 Dec 2010 21:03:29 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.20 (2010-08-04) |
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 03:49:49PM CET:
> I've applied the patch below to a temporary bug-fixing branch, merged
> it to maint, merged maint to master, and pushed. The testcase still
> works with GNU make, FreeBSD make and Solaris make, but I couldn't
> test if it really fixes the problem with HP-UX make and IRIX make.
Thanks. This makes the test pass on HP/UX 11.23 and IRIX 6.5.
Cheers,
Ralf
> distlinksbrk.test: Work around botched "make -k".
>
> * tests/distlinksbrk.test: Run "make" multiple times and grep
> its output each time for a single error message, rather than
> running "make -k" one single time and grepping its output for
> all the expected error messages. This should work around make
> implementations with limited (broken?) `-k' support; for more
> information, see these subthreads on the automake-patches list:
> - 2010-11-15, "Testsuite failures on HP-UX 11.23",
> <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2010-11/msg00162.html>
> - 2010-11-15, "Testsuite failures on IRIX 6.5",
> <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2010-11/msg00166.html>