Re: Spurious tests are run in the old testsuite.

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Peter,

* Peter Rosin wrote on Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 01:57:53PM CEST:
> Den 2010-09-12 10:53 skrev Ralf Wildenhues:
> > * Peter Rosin wrote on Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 11:04:09AM CEST:
> >> Den 2010-09-10 10:48 skrev Peter Rosin:
> >>> Sigh. So, there is no way to run mdemo2-make.test and mdemo2-exec.test
> >>> on systems where mdemo-dryrun.test fails.
> >>
> >> I managed to run them by removing the offending dependency
> >> in the generated Makefile. Both of the previously skipped
> >> mdemo2 tests passed and I could finally check what $NM code
> >> paths they cover in the libtool script.
> > 
> > Your mails touch on several different but related issues.  Let's address
> > this one first.  Does the patch below make things work better for you?
> 
> Nope.

Please show output of

$ make --version
$ echo 'all:; @echo $(.FEATURES)' | make -f -
$ grep -C1 order.only config.log

If your make doesn't support order-only prerequisites, then of course my
patch won't help you.  I'm not sure what I can do in that case, though,
besides maybe globally reordering tests so that those likely to fail
(such as mdemo-dryrun) are not prerequisites to others.

Thanks,
Ralf