Re: [PATCH] Enable runtime cwrapper debugging; add tests

[Charles Wilson]

On Sun, 13 Dec 2009 11:23 +0100, "Ralf Wildenhues" wrote:
> * Charles Wilson wrote on Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 07:57:02PM CET:
> > 
> > This has been in the cygwin distro for five months (over a year, in one
> > form or another), and heavily tested.
> 
> Just to let you know, I am currently trying to sort out build
> regressions on HP-UX systems, which are caused by bugs in its shell, and
> exposed by some of the w32 changes to ltmain.  Testing changes on the
> system they are intended for is good, but is not enough to ensure
> absense of regressions.

Well, that's certainly a truism.

Two related lines of inquiry:
1) Under *normal* development rules -- e.g not a pre-release
bug-fix-only phase, nor a not-quite-pre-release code slush like (I
think) we're in right now, for 2.2.8 -- surely you aren't suggesting
that EVERY contribution must be validated on EVERY platform, prior to
push?  These were tested on cyg/ming and linux, so in general, during
/normal/ development, that should be sufficient contra reveiwer
comments, right?

2) in the current pre-release-ish situation, if you want to postpone
/all/ of the cygming patches until post-2.2.8 that's ok (I'd rather at
least get /some/ of them in, but it's not the end of the world
otherwise).

Finally, it's not clear in your message: are you saying that *existing*
win32 "changes" currently in master are causing problems on HP-UX, or
just that some of the win32 changes /in this patch/ are causing them?

--
Chuck