Re: Testsuite 147,148,149,150

[Tadeus (Eus) Prastowo]

Hi Eric!

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 11:27 PM, Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 02/24/2011 03:23 PM, Tadeus (Eus) Prastowo wrote:
> > But, I am wondering how the tarball can be released when not all test
> cases
> > are okay ;-)
>
> They were all okay _for the person who did the release_, given the set
> of software installed on one single machine.  That does not mean the
> testsuite is bug-free; sometimes, we don't find out about testsuite bugs
> until after a release, when other people test with a wider combinations
> of other software.
>

Ah, I see.


> But that does not mean that a bug in the testsuite invalidates using
> that build of autoconf.  You can most likely safely ignore those
> testsuite failures, especially given that Ralf has pointed out the
> likely commit that fixed that particular testsuite bug.
>

Yup, it makes sense.


> > That is the reason why I try to bootstrap from what I have in my git
> clone.
>
> Bootstrap generally requires starting from an installed tarball, not
> from a git clone.  Once you have installed something, then you can work
> from git and install a git snapshot.  But you have to start somewhere,
> and that's from a tarball.
>

Ah, I understand now.

Thank you very much for the information :-)


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