On Sunday 17 August 2008 09:29:14 Bob Rogers wrote: > I notice that docs/project/release_manager_guide.pod says (line 123): > > It is not necessary to quiet all the codingstd tests for a > release. > > Since these tests are on "make test" (and hence visible to > non-developers), and are being tested with Smolder in any case, I think > this sentence is bad advice and should be removed. WDOT?
Not all of the codingstd tests are part of make test. There's a specific codingstd test target you can run separately. I estimate about 2/3 of the tests will pass. The others may or may not ever pass. For example, the macro parenthesization tests will never all pass. -- c