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From:
H.Merijn Brand
Date:
April 23, 2007 13:56
Subject:
Re: Configure cleanups
Message ID:
20070423225452.6158bfae@pc09
On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 14:06:32 -0400, "Jerry D. Hedden" <jdhedden@cpan.org>
wrote:
> This changes looks 'broken' as it causes a whole bunch of:
> ./protochk: line 7: -f: command not found
> during configure.
No real harm done, but thanks for catching.
I missed a pair of double quotes. Fixed in change #31043
> 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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