David Wheeler wrote:
> On Oct 5, 2004, at 11:32 AM, Geoffrey Young wrote:
>
>>> Ah, cool. But $(HOME) doesn't correspond to ~/ here, does it?
>>
>>
>> yeah - it's equivalent to $ENV{HOME} in make-land. I guess there is
>> always
>> the danger that $HOME isn't populated, but internally A-T uses $ENV{HOME}
>> when it generates the .apache-test directory, so it's probably not
>> that big
>> of a deal. or it may not be that big of a deal anyway - the worst
>> that can
>> happen is that D::C reports statistics for TestConfigData.pm
>
>
> Uh...why? Why not create it in the build directory? That seems more
> portable.
basically it goes into $HOME because it stores the A-T preferences for a
specific user. but this is all part of the endless 'sticky preferences' foo
that I really don't want to be associated with ;) lots of to and fro in the
httpd-test archives, though...
--Geoff
