Re: update-copyright self-tests bug

[Simon Josefsson]

Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi Simon,
> It looks like somehow perl is being run with -pi.bak.
>
> However, here's a patch that should avoid that:

Thank you!  I'll re-enable the self-test in libidn and proceed with the
release process...

>> test-update-copyright.sh that creates them, so I suspect that
>> Cygwin/Windows somehow creates backup files for some reason?  Is there
>> any way to disable that?  Any other ideas?
>>
>> Meanwhile, I'm disabling this self-test in Libidn since it doesn't
>> affect the stability of the rest of the package.  Generally, this
>> self-tests seems to be in a somewhat different class than usual
>> self-tests, more like a maintainer-check thing?
>
> Yes.  It is important to have self tests for programs like that,
> but it's not as important that they run properly on non-development
> platforms.

I don't recall any mechanism to make that happen though, although I
guess we could invent one -- create a 'maintainer-check' rule that is
invoked by 'make distcheck' but not by normal 'make check'?  I don't
have time to implement that right now though.

/Simon