Il giorno sab, 07/08/2010 alle 17.15 -0700, Alec Warner ha scritto: > > Why not just set some LDFLAGS that totally won't work (-Wl, taters) > and then assume anything that actually compiles with those flags set > does not respect LDFLAGS. Set that up on a tinderbox instead of > making users do it.
Because such negative tests don't get far away: a single package failing will drop its whole deptree from merging. And we have much more important things to look for with a tinderbox than this, given the amount of (failure) builds you'd be expected to see with this approach. -- Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes http://blog.flameeyes.eu/
