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[FYI] {micro} NEWS: document testsuite work for 1.13.3


From: Stefano Lattarini
Subject: [FYI] {micro} NEWS: document testsuite work for 1.13.3
Date: Sun, 26 May 2013 11:24:10 +0200

Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <address@hidden>
---
 NEWS | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 3b6814d..ab519c4 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -87,6 +87,26 @@ New in 1.13.3:
   - Byte-compilation of Emacs lisp files could fail spuriously on Solaris,
     when /bin/ksh or /usr/xpg4/bin/sh were used as shell.
 
+* Testsuite work:
+
+  - The test cases no longer have the executable bit set.  This should
+    make it clear that they are not meant to be run directly; as
+    explained in t/README, the can only be run through the custom
+    'runtest' script, or by a "make check" invocation.
+
+  - The testsuite has seen the introduction of a new helper function
+    'run_make', and several related changes.  These serve a two-fold
+    purpose:
+
+      1. Removing brittleness due to the use of "make -e" in test cases.
+
+      2. Seamlessly allowing the use of parallel make ("make -j...") in
+         the test cases, even where redirection of make output is involved
+         (see automake bug#11413 for a description of the subtle issues in
+         this area).
+
+   - Some other minor, miscellaneous changes and fixlets.
+
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 New in 1.13.2:
-- 
1.8.3.rc3.8.g5e49f30




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