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Re: Test for DejaGnu support that runs DejaGnu [PATCH]


From: Alexandre Duret-Lutz
Subject: Re: Test for DejaGnu support that runs DejaGnu [PATCH]
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 00:56:43 +0200
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>>> "Rich" == Richard Dawe <address@hidden> writes:

 Rich> Hello.
 Rich> Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
 Rich> [snip]
 >> Calling `make distcheck' (in addition to `$MAKE check') is probably
 >> a good way to check for cleaning, plus it will also make sure that
 >> files are correctly distributed and that VPATH builds work.

 Rich> FWIW the DejaGnu testsuite will not get distributed by
 Rich> default. The author will have to add something to
 Rich> Makefile.am, to get the testsuite distributed.

Ah.  That means running distcheck in these test cases just proves
that `make check' will succeed when the test-suite is absent?

Perhabs we should change a couple of your dejagnu test-cases
to distribute the test-suite, just so that distcheck actually
check something.
-- 
Alexandre Duret-Lutz





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