hello Branden,
On Thu, Nov 21, 2024 at 10:47:21AM -0600, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > $ ./boostrap && ./configure
> [...]
> > configure: groff's version string must start with three decimal
> > integers separated by dots. "" does not match.
> >
> > I edited the configure script manually so I can run make check
>
> I recently became aware of this problem. Apparently shallow (more
> specifically, depth 1) Git clones are much more popular than I thought!
But more dangerous that I thought. I almost never checkout history so I
have this in my .zshrc:
alias -s git='git clone --depth=1'
so I copy paste URLs with .git extensions in my term and just press ENTER to
clone.
As I am an occasional contributor on numerous repos, it save time and
space.
> Instead of hacking the configure script, you can populate the
> .tarball-version file.
> $ echo 1.23.0.9999 > .tarball-version
>
> See <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1082520> for
> background.
thanks for this! I was puzzled when I read the problem came from shallow
repos but using git tags to get the current version is a practice I will
consider (I avoid multiple sources of information).
> > > You can find out more about the framework groff uses for automated tests
> > > at the following link.
> > >
> > > https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/automake.html#Scripts_002dbased-Testsuites
OK. It's actually the other way around: It harness TAP when I hoped it
to produce TAP.
I thought the info was worth a patch on testanything site but it's already
there:
https://testanything.org/consumers.html#others
And I came back to my question out of curiosity: is it a harness to
harness the automake report output :)
the most important part of the doc is can ne summarized in 3 lines of
shell
ok() { exit 0 ; }
skip() { exit 77 ; }
bruce() { exit 99 ; } # because Bruce is the one who die hard
> I would agree that the GNU build system is intimidating. I've come to
> the conclusion that build systems that have to cope with a diversity of
> software projects and target platforms always become complex
In my ecosystem
* have the chance to focus on linux so make is good enough
* work with people who don't even use make to deply so a Makefile is an
improvement
My next step in packaging effort is to create debian packages for libraries
used by
researchers so they can `apt-get build-deps .`.
thanks again for your helpful effort
regards,
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