* De: Poul-Henning Kamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ Data: 2002-10-29 ]
[ Subjecte: Re: make(1) broken! ]
> >Realistically, to prevent any sort of breakage to make(1), we should
> >test make(1) by building every port that does not USE_GMAKE, and do
> >release, and do cross-release. Or just not modify it, except for
> >bugfixes, which should be tested as above.
>
> I don't think we need to go overboard, but we are in the run{up,down}
> to a release now, so some extra testing would be nice.
>
> Having a set of regression tests for make under src/tools/regression
> would be really cool as well.
I agree with you 100%. It'd be nice if people with esoteric-but-valid
build systems using our make(1) could submit some edge cases to make
up said tests. I've got a few simple ones, none of which test much on
the "real world behaviour relied upon" side.
At the very least, a suite of "FreeBSD make mistake" tests would be good
for anyone who decides they want to take up the ever-touted merge-with-otherbsd
job.
juli.
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