On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 06:50:36PM -0500, Randy McMurchy wrote:
>
> It's the best we've got. One of two things has to happen to close the
> bug. Run the test suite the only way we can (which, by the way, is a
> very good indication that the package builds in the manner intended by
> the author), o
Archaic wrote these words on 08/04/05 18:30 CST:
> Perhaps I'm being to anal about it, but I see little to no value in
> building binaries, testing them, then wiping them and building new
> binaries. IOW, it doesn't test anything other than the _possibility_
> that the next binaries _might_ be goo
On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 01:31:56PM -0500, Tushar Teredesai wrote:
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> By messed up I meant that if you use the normal way of running tests:
>./configure --prefix=/usr &&
>make &&
>make -k check || true &&
>make install
>
> The make check will run configure again (twice actually) a
On 8/4/05, Matthew Burgess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Incidentally, in Tush's original report he mentioned that "Additionally,
> running make check messes up the built executables". 2 questions
> related to that then:
>
> 1. What exactly is "messed up" about them? and
> 2. Are they similarly
Randy McMurchy wrote these words on 08/04/05 13:11 CST:
> Well, I thought about that, but because the version number of the
> testsuite tarball and the source tarball are the same (unlike the
> Bash tarball and the Bash Docs tarball) and the fact they are
> downloaded from the same directory (poin
Matthew Burgess wrote these words on 08/04/05 13:01 CST:
> Randy McMurchy wrote:
>
>>+If you wish to run the test suite for Module-Init-Tools, download the
>>+separate tarball and unpack it along with the source tarball.
>
> What tarball? Now, as it's optional, do we link to it from
> chapter03
Randy McMurchy wrote:
Hi all,
Attached is a patch which can be applied to trunk (and other branches
as well, I think) which will provide instructions to run the Module Init
Tools test suite and fix BZ #1597.
Thanks a lot. It seems to address my concerns nicely!
+If you wish to run the test s
