From owner-freebsd-current Tue Oct 29 5: 8:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 931) id C0D7337B401; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 05:08:54 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 05:08:54 -0800 From: Juli Mallett To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make(1) broken! Message-ID: <20021029050854.A903@FreeBSD.org> References: <20021029041633.A96819@FreeBSD.org> <90384.1035896204@critter.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <90384.1035896204@critter.freebsd.dk>; from phk@critter.freebsd.dk on Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 01:56:44PM +0100 Organisation: The FreeBSD Project X-Alternate-Addresses: , , , , X-Towel: Yes X-LiveJournal: flata, jmallett X-Negacore: Yes Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * De: Poul-Henning Kamp [ Data: 2002-10-29 ] [ Subjecte: Re: make(1) broken! ] > >Realistically, to prevent any sort of breakage to make(1), we should > >test make(1) by building every port that does not USE_GMAKE, and do > >release, and do cross-release. Or just not modify it, except for > >bugfixes, which should be tested as above. > > I don't think we need to go overboard, but we are in the run{up,down} > to a release now, so some extra testing would be nice. > > Having a set of regression tests for make under src/tools/regression > would be really cool as well. I agree with you 100%. It'd be nice if people with esoteric-but-valid build systems using our make(1) could submit some edge cases to make up said tests. I've got a few simple ones, none of which test much on the "real world behaviour relied upon" side. At the very least, a suite of "FreeBSD make mistake" tests would be good for anyone who decides they want to take up the ever-touted merge-with-otherbsd job. juli. -- Juli Mallett | FreeBSD: The Power To Serve Will break world for fulltime employment. | finger jmallett@FreeBSD.org http://people.FreeBSD.org/~jmallett/ | Support my FreeBSD hacking! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message