GNU bug report logs - #16057
Non-parallel test suite API changes in 1.13

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Package: automake;

Reported by: Behdad Esfahbod <behdad <at> behdad.org>

Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2013 01:39:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Done: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Behdad Esfahbod <behdad <at> behdad.org>
To: bug-automake <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: Non-parallel test suite API changes in 1.13
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,
> 

-- 
behdad
http://behdad.org/
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