Re: update-copyright self-tests bug

[Jim Meyering]

Simon Josefsson wrote:
> 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...

Pushed.

>>> 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'?

Or you can simply tell gnulib-tool to exclude them.

I wouldn't bother unless they become too burdensome.