Jim Meyering <j...@meyering.net> writes: > Hi Simon, > It looks like somehow perl is being run with -pi.bak. > > However, here's a patch that should avoid that:
Thank you! I'll re-enable the self-test in libidn and proceed with the release process... >> test-update-copyright.sh that creates them, so I suspect that >> Cygwin/Windows somehow creates backup files for some reason? Is there >> any way to disable that? Any other ideas? >> >> Meanwhile, I'm disabling this self-test in Libidn since it doesn't >> affect the stability of the rest of the package. Generally, this >> self-tests seems to be in a somewhat different class than usual >> self-tests, more like a maintainer-check thing? > > Yes. It is important to have self tests for programs like that, > but it's not as important that they run properly on non-development > platforms. I don't recall any mechanism to make that happen though, although I guess we could invent one -- create a 'maintainer-check' rule that is invoked by 'make distcheck' but not by normal 'make check'? I don't have time to implement that right now though. /Simon
