Simon Josefsson wrote: > 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...
Pushed. >>> 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'? Or you can simply tell gnulib-tool to exclude them. I wouldn't bother unless they become too burdensome.
