Re: [bug-gettext] [PATCH] Add a test wrapper to avoid temp file name collision.

[Daiki Ueno]

Stefano Lattarini <address@hidden> writes:

> In the long term, I think it would be nice to ensure each test runs in
> its own subdirectory, not to have to worry about possible conflicts in
> the names of temporary files (and the headache-causing racy failures
> usually associated with that).  Packages like Automake and Coreutils
> have been running each test in its own subdirectory for a long time,
> and have lived very happily ever after.

Okay, will look at those packages.  Thanks for the information.

> I tried, but unfortunately encountered this build failure during
> the ./autogen.sh run from a clean checkout:

>   libxml/threads.c:533:33: error: 'xmlOnceInit' undeclared (first use in this 
> function)

This should be fixed with the recent Gnulib update:

commit 55ba71f47850fbd870cb08bac1cf992f1368295e
Author: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
Date:   Wed May 29 10:24:17 2013 -0700

    regex: adapt to locking regime instead of depending on pthread

Regards,
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Daiki Ueno