Re: [PATCH] {maint} tests: improve tests on "maintainer-clean" target

[Stefano Lattarini]

On Thursday 31 March 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 03:27:18PM CEST:
> > On Wednesday 30 March 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > > 
> > > A general comment: if you keep on adding tests to maint, it will break
> > > branch-1.11 in the long run, in the sense that the branch will not be
> > > releasable any more without splitting up the test suite, or improving
> > > the test suite driver as discussed before, as it will not work any more
> > > on MinGW/MSYS.  Please keep this in mind.
> > >
> > How much room is left, approximately?
> 
> I haven't tested on MinGW recently, and haven't tested branch-1.11 in a
> longer while.  The limit was 32K for argv plus environment IIRC.
>
But then we should be pretty safe on both maint and master:
 $ (cd tests && echo *.test | wc -c)
 11154 # maint
 16089 # master
Even considering the extra code in the Makefile rules, these values
are waaay below the upper length limit of MSYS/MinGW.  Then, why have
you experienced failures due to command-line length on MSYS/MinGW?
I'm confused ...

> > I have no big problems in applying
> > this patch to master only, but I'd rather keep it in maint unless we are
> > already dangerously near to the MinGW/MSYS upper limit.
> 
> Well, apply it based on maint,
>
The patch is already based on maint ... but then, should I apply it to
maint, or merge it to master only?

> and let's strive for leaving rougly 6K for tests we may still want to
> introduce, plus environment.

Regards,
  Stefano