Subject: bug#16057: Non-parallel test suite API changes in 1.13

From: Behdad Esfahbod <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2013 20:48:32 -0500

FWIW, the serial-tests is useless since it makes automake < 1.13 to fail. :(

On 13-12-04 08:37 PM, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Please advise how one is supposed to port their pre-1.13 test suite's
> TESTS_ENVIRONMENT to 1.13.  Currently, in fontconfig and harfbuzz at least, we
> cannot find a solution that works both with 1.11 and 1.13, and we cannot
> require 1.13.
> 
> Example change that is not acceptable:
> 
> 
> https://github.com/behdad/harfbuzz/commit/d913f98d88098fc0f4163dfbc54d8ca9ebe9dd81
> 
> Thanks,
> 

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