On 5/10/10 2:18, Chong Yidong wrote:
Because the test files are not to be distributed with the tarball.
Why not? Isn't it true that whenever someone builds Emacs from source, it's
possible that they are using a configuration (GCC version, configure flags,
etc.) that hasn't been tested extensively, and it would make sense for them to
run Emacs' self-tests before they waste their time installing an unstable Emacs?
This seems to apply especially to the pretest tarballs, but also to the regular
distribution to some extent.
Christian.