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From:
H.Merijn Brand
Date:
April 23, 2007 10:42
Subject:
Re: Configure cleanups
Message ID:
20070423194111.03cdae68@pc09
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 09:04:48 -0400 (EDT), Andy Dougherty
<doughera@lafayette.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, H.Merijn Brand wrote:
>
> > In change #30919, Nicholas added some cleanups for 'try'. He however did
> > not catch all, which isn't his fault, but unveils a somewhat unclean
> > state of affairs.
> >
> > There are several approaches to the cleanup.
> > The common flow of control is to write the test program in try.c, then
> > compile it, if that succeeded, run it, read the exit code, and clean up.
>
> > I'm thinking about creating a macro that does something like
> >
> > cleanup_try="$rm -f try try$exe_ext a.out try.c try.o .out core core.* try.core"
>
> > This however is a huge task. Any objections before I start?
>
> No objections from me. It sounds like a good plan. Looking forward and
> dreaming a bit, this might also make it easier later to extend the cleanup
> process to do something useful in cases where tests fail.
Open for suggestions.
Above suggestion is now in as change #31040 (76 files changed)
Enjoy the clean feeling :)
mc_units snapshot uploaded to $CPAN
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