Re: make distcheck in tinderbox [was Re: make check failures- gnome-vfs, e-d-s, at-spi]
- From: Behdad Esfahbod <behdad cs toronto edu>
- To: Mark McLoughlin <markmc redhat com>
- Cc: Luis Villa <luis villa gmail com>, Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com>, desktop-devel-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: make distcheck in tinderbox [was Re: make check failures- gnome-vfs, e-d-s, at-spi]
- Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 10:52:46 -0400 (EDT)
On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> I think I'm with Matthias on this - make distcheck shows plenty of
> issues that aren't going to affect anyone in reality, and no maintainer
> wants to be pestered every day about the latest random thing that's
> gotten screwed up.
>
> If people want to distribute snapshots from CVS, then "make dist" will
> do fine. If the resulting tarball can't be built, then *they* can report
> *that* issue. That's going to involve a lot less problems reported and
> maintainers can be confident that by fixing the issues they're actually
> doing something useful.
I don't quite agree here. 'make distcheck' mainly checks things
like building in a different directory, or from readonly source
base, which are quite useful to packagers and distro people. And
the point is that, if a package passes make distcheck, then any
future break would be a one-line fix of adding a file to the
Makefile or something like that. If fixing it is a bigger
problem, like redoing part of the build system in another way,
then that would better be fixed sooner than just before the
release.
> Cheers,
> Mark.
--behdad
http://behdad.org/
- References:
- make check failures- gnome-vfs, e-d-s, at-spi
- Re: make check failures- gnome-vfs, e-d-s, at-spi
- make distcheck in tinderbox [was Re: make check failures- gnome-vfs, e-d-s, at-spi]
- Re: make distcheck in tinderbox [was Re: make check failures- gnome-vfs, e-d-s, at-spi]
- Re: make distcheck in tinderbox [was Re: make check failures- gnome-vfs, e-d-s, at-spi]
- Re: make distcheck in tinderbox [was Re: make check failures- gnome-vfs, e-d-s, at-spi]
- Re: make distcheck in tinderbox [was Re: make check failures- gnome-vfs, e-d-s, at-spi]
- Re: make distcheck in tinderbox [was Re: make check failures- gnome-vfs, e-d-s, at-spi]
- Re: make distcheck in tinderbox [was Re: make check failures- gnome-vfs, e-d-s, at-spi]
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