Den 2011-03-01 11:37 skrev Stefano Lattarini:
> On Tuesday 01 March 2011, Peter Rosin wrote:
>> Den 2011-03-01 10:40 skrev Stefano Lattarini:
>>> On Tuesday 01 March 2011, Peter Rosin wrote:
>>>> Good, I pushed with that squashed in.  I didn't dare a merge to
>>>> master as the conflicts looked scary.
>>>>
>>> I've taken a look and done the merge.  Luckily, the conflicts were
>>> in fact strictly spurious (but yes, they truly look scary if you're
>>> not intimate with the latest changes in tests/defs, which indeed
>>> entailed quite a bit of code moving; sorry about that).
>>
>> Thanks!  I managed to guess that it probably just looked scary, but
>> the thing that held me back was the fact that the new ltinit.test
>> was written for maint, and I didn't know what parts of it needed
>> adjustment for master.
>>
> *Ideally*, no one should.  Every test that works for maint should also
> work for master without modifications (unless, of course, it tests an
> automake behaviour that has been modified in master).

Yes, ideally.  But I'd be much more confident if the tests dir hadn't
been the victim of continuous stirring :-)

>> I did spot the obsolete set -e but didn't
>> know what else I was missing (probably nothing, but I wasn't
>> sure...).  Anyway, should I push the below or is the plan to
>> clean up all new 'set -e' fallouts "later"?
>>
> That was my intention, yes.  But if you want to clean up all the
> existing 'set -e' fallouts, that would be nice and well-received
> (and in fact, "git grep '^set -e$' master:tests" shows there is
> a fair numer of such fallouts already).  Otherwise, I can still
> do that (at a later time).

I'm dropping the patch, there's no point in fixing a tiny fraction
of such a minor non-problem.

Cheers,
Peter

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