Subject: Re: bug#16291: Use of /bin/rm

From: [email-masked] (Ludovic Courtès)
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2013 23:33:03 +0100

Stefano Lattarini <[email-masked]> skribis:

> On 12/30/2013 09:55 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>>
>> [MEGA-SNIP]
>>
>> No; I’m asking because the tests specifically refer to /bin/rm.
>> What’s the reason?
>>
> Copying from my first reply:
>
>     Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>     > Would it be possible to change these tests to use ‘rm’
>     > instead of /bin/rm?  What do you think?
>     >
>    That would be a bad idea, because we would miss warning from systems
>    where /bin/rm is deficient but the user has installed a better rm
>    (maybe from GNU coreutils) earlier in PATH.
>
> To reiterate, we want to find out about deficiencies in the "base
> system" even if the user who is running the Automake testsuite has
> mitigated them by installing better tools earlier in his PATH.

OK, got it now.  Thanks for taking the time.

Ludo’.