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

2013-12-05 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On 13-12-05 06:25 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: >> For good or for bad, there >> > are enough developers that think of the autotools as magic black boxes >> > that they are unwilling to use any version not shipped by their distro. >> > > I'm not willing to go to great lengths to support such attitud

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

2013-12-05 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 12/05/2013 10:49 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > On 12/05/2013 03:28 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: >> tags 16057 notabug >> close 16057 >> stop >> >> On 12/05/2013 01:37 AM, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >> Hello Behdad. >> >>> Please advise how one is supposed to port their pre-1.13 test suite's >>

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

2013-12-05 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 13-12-05 05:49 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.11.1 gnits ...]m4_ifdef([1.13-witness], [ > serial-tests]) I ended up working around it like this: https://github.com/behdad/harfbuzz/commit/2646aec1e67cd6e09f5f7859c9d5898917acc2d5 - --

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

2013-12-05 Thread Peter Johansson
On 12/06/2013 08:49 AM, Eric Blake wrote: Why not? 1.13 is almost one year old now... Believe it or not, some people still like to make their project work with out-of-the-box tools. +1 -- Peter Johansson

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

2013-12-05 Thread Eric Blake
On 12/05/2013 03:28 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > tags 16057 notabug > close 16057 > stop > > On 12/05/2013 01:37 AM, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: >> Hi, >> > Hello Behdad. > >> Please advise how one is supposed to port their pre-1.13 test suite's >> TESTS_ENVIRONMENT to 1.13. Currently, in fontconfi

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

2013-12-05 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On 13-12-05 05:28 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > Why not? 1.13 is almost one year old now... Why not? Because I don't require any feature new in 1.13, yet it breaks my package. Also because it's in no long-term-support distro like Ubuntu 12.04. I personally installed 1.13 and released a tarball

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

2013-12-05 Thread Stefano Lattarini
tags 16057 notabug close 16057 stop On 12/05/2013 01:37 AM, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > Hi, > Hello Behdad. > 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 bot

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

2013-12-04 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
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

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

2013-12-04 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
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.c