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From:
Jerry D. Hedden
Date:
April 23, 2007 11:06
Subject:
Re: Configure cleanups
Message ID:
1ff86f510704231106m42805681iae45af7a1334e50a@mail.gmail.com
This changes looks 'broken' as it causes a whole bunch of:
./protochk: line 7: -f: command not found
during configure.
On 4/23/07, H.Merijn Brand <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> 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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