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From:
Steve Hay
Date:
July 29, 2014 07:53
Subject:
Re: Build fixes for cherry-picking to maint-5.20?
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On 28 July 2014 12:27, Brian Fraser <fraserbn@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Steve Hay <steve.m.hay@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> The following build/test fixes, mostly for Android, look good for
>> maint-5.20 to me. Any seconders and thirders?
>>
>
> Since I committed most of these, I'll abstain from actually voting,
> but a soft +1 to all of them, except
>
>> 329865d Makefile.SH: Fix cross builds with -Uhostgenerate
>
>
>> ef4ead6 Makefile.SH: Add missing files for make test on cross builds
>
> This. I'm not sure if it's needed for 5.20; I think it might be all
> due to changes in blead. The problem is that, if a file should be
> copied but isn't, then one test during all of 'make test' will fail.
> However, if we try to copy a file that doesn't exist in 5.20, then
> *all* of make test will fail.
>

Would it be easy for you to test the current maint-5.20 branch to
determine if we need this change or not?

(I think this is not something that I can test myself (on Windows...)
since it's a change to Makefile.SH.)

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