Re: sample files not all in the distribution

[Morten Welinder <mortenw gnome org>]

We only ship a few of the test files.  This is for size reasons.  We
basically just
need enough to tell if something is terribly wrong.

And then there's the valgrind section of tests.  I can't make those
succeed on your
machine.  The libraries we use -- glib, gtk+ for example -- have problems that
require the use of suppressions.  Every different version needs its own set of
suppressions, so they will likely fail for a lot of people.

Morten





On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 12:20 PM, Pierre Labastie
<pierre labastie neuf fr> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am new to this list. I am one of the "editors" of the BLFS
> (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/) book. It is a book
> of "build recipes" for linux packages.
>
> Usually, when a new version of package is released, we build
> it, and we run the tests to check that we have not missed
> something important. Lately, I have updated the "gnumeric
> page" (versions 1.12.19 and 1.12.20) , and noticed that a lot
> of tests were skipped: the reason is that not all the
> sample files used for the tests are in the released tarball.
>
> I cloned the git repository, and there are the missing sample
> files. It looks like the reason why not all the files are included
> is the code in Makefile.am:
> --------
> dist-hook:
>         mkdir $(distdir)/samples
>         cp $(srcdir)/samples/*.gnumeric $(distdir)/samples/.
>         mkdir $(distdir)/samples/excel
>         cp $(srcdir)/samples/excel/*.xls $(distdir)/samples/excel/.
> -------
> So my question is: is there a specific reason for not including
> those sample files, at least those needed by the tests?
>
> Regards
> Pierre
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