Re: Autotest: ChangeLog search expensive

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 06/14/2010 11:23 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> The Autotest testsuite startup code searching for ChangeLog files below
> the source tree is potentially very expensive.  Not sure what the best
> way out is here, maybe some way to allow the developer to set a fixed
> string at `make dist' time, or allow to try out some version control
> command.  But say, searching the disk for half a minute due to cold
> cache, isn't such a great idea.

Finding the ChangeLogs is obsolete nowadays.  Most of the time the 
PACKAGE_VERSION nowadays includes the svn or git revision id, and that 
is enough to identify the version.  I would just scrap that code...

Paolo