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Re: [bug-gnulib] Re: gnulib-tool --with-tests --test
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Bruno Haible |
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Re: [bug-gnulib] Re: gnulib-tool --with-tests --test |
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Fri, 10 Nov 2006 20:05:41 +0100 |
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Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> The patch below should some of the reported issues. OK to apply?
Thanks for this patch. Everything except the first hunk (gl_source_base)
is fine. Please apply.
About the gl_source_base of the tests directory: The idea is that
the tests directory has its sources separate from the main directory,
so that when a dependency (providing a .h file, for example) is missing
from a library module but present in the tests module, we still an
error while compiling the library. Otherwise testing with --with-tests
might fail to uncover dependency bugs that --without-tests would uncover;
this is obviously undesirable. - Can you find another fix for the problem?
> FWIW, I still don't understand the necessity of a separate configure
> script in the gltests/ subdirectory at all. Is that just for testing
> purposes?
Like above: If the tests module requires an m4 macro invocation that the
library module would also need but lacks, --with-tests would not uncover
the bug.
Bruno