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Re: [perl #118543] removing various testing and obsolete profilingtargets

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Nicholas Clark
Date:
June 19, 2013 15:09
Subject:
Re: [perl #118543] removing various testing and obsolete profilingtargets
Message ID:
20130619150941.GD3729@plum.flirble.org
On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 11:06:53AM -0400, George Greer wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Jun 2013, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> 
> > # New Ticket Created by  Nicholas Clark
> > # Please include the string:  [perl #118543]
> > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue.
> > # <URL: https://rt.perl.org:443/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=118543 >
> >
> >
> > There are a *lot* of variant testing targets in the *nix Makefile, most of
> > which I don't think that anyone uses. All are shortcuts which invoke t/TEST
> > or t/harness with various options. I propose we remove most of them.
> >
> > ie *keep* only the following targets:
> >
> > check check.valgrind test test-harness test-notty test-porting test-prep
> > test-reonly test-tty test.valgrind test_harness test_harness_notty
> > test_notty test_notty.valgrind test_porting test_prep test_prep.valgrind
> > test_prep_pre test_prep_reonly test_reonly test_tty
> 
> Note that current Test::Smoke still uses the '_test' target for some 
> reason unless set for 'harnessonly' or 'is56x' or on VMS.

Aha, yes, that didn't feature in either list. :-)
Because the grep for what is still there was:

grep ^test.*: Makefile | sed -e 's/:.*//' | tr ' ' '\n' | sort

it's still there.
It would be nice if the smoker stopped using _test

Nicholas Clark

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