Re: [m4-1.4.11] build feedback

[Eric Blake]

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[digging up an old thread]

According to Bruno Haible on 4/3/2008 10:15 PM:
| Hi Eric,
|
| Eric Blake wrote:
|> The failures are all in gnulib portability code,
|> and don't appear to immediately impact m4 behavior (the gnulib
|> replacements are more general than what m4 uses them for).  Meanwhile, can
|> you please rerun with 'make -k' to get the full set of failures?
|
| You would not need to write this stereotypic reply if the main tests were
| run before the gnulib ones:
|
| --- Makefile.am.bak     2008-04-02 05:48:32.000000000 +0200
| +++ Makefile.am 2008-04-04 06:12:39.000000000 +0200
| @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
|  ##
|  ## Written by Gary V. Vaughan <address@hidden>
|
| -SUBDIRS = . examples lib src doc tests checks
| +SUBDIRS = . examples lib src doc checks tests

I finally broke down, added a ChangeLog, and committed this, as the base
of branch-1.4 (and soon to appear on the other branches):
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=m4.git;a=commitdiff;h=22598a8

Thanks again for the suggestion.

- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             address@hidden
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