Re: serial-tests option and backwards compatibility

[Luke Mewburn]

On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 02:31:43PM +0100, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
  | On 02/04/2013 01:16 AM, Luke Mewburn wrote:
  | > We use autotest extensively, and our test scenario is rather complex
  | > and relies upon the existing serial behaviour;
  | >
  | I don't follow; if you use autotest, why you also need to rely on the
  | AUtomake-provided test harnesses?  None of the GNU projects using
  | autotest and that I know of (tar, bison, autoconf, libtool) does so.

My apologies for the brain fade; I conflated "autotest" (from autoconf)
with "automake test [harnesses]".  We use autotest not automake test.


  | > If parallel tests supported a dependency graph a la make
  | >
  | But it does; in fact, it relies on make to honour such a dependency graph;
  | quoting from section 15.2.3 "Parallel Test Harness" of the Automake manual
  | 
<http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/automake.html#Parallel-Test-Harness>:
  |  [...]
  | 
  | Or am I missing something else?

That makes sense (in light of my confusion of autotest vs automake test.)


  | > This isn't the only backwards incompatible change made recently,
  | > and in my humble opinion I think the timeframes introducing
  | > backwards incompatibility are too aggressive.
  | >
  | You are not the only one to think so, and I've come to agree (at least
  | partially); for some more discussions and background, see:
  | 
  |   <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2013-02/msg00001.html>
  |   <http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=13578>
  | 
  | So things should proceed more carefully in the future (I hope).

Sounds great.


regards,
Luke.

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