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Re: testsuite could basename the "Generated from"
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Luke Mewburn |
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Re: testsuite could basename the "Generated from" |
Date: |
Sat, 4 Jul 2020 10:23:17 +1000 |
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Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-12-10) |
On 19-08-26 19:55, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
| On Tue, 27 Aug 2019, Luke Mewburn wrote:
| >I notice that autoconf generating configure, and automake generating
| >Makefile.in both store the basename of the source file in the comments.
| >
| >Currently I'm using the following to simulate this in testsuite.at
| >after AT_INIT():
| > m4_cleardivert([HEADER-COMMENT])dnl
| > m4_divert_text([HEADER-COMMENT],[dnl
| > @%:@ Generated from m4_bpatsubst(__file__,[^.*/\(.*\)],[[\1]]) by
m4_PACKAGE_STRING])dnl
| >
| >I think that AT_INIT() should do this by default.
| >
| >If this is a good idea, I'll consider submitting a patch for AT_INIT()
| >in autoconf.
|
| I think that this falls into the current trend that reproducible
| builds are a good thing. Anything which normalizes the output
| (even for temporary/transient files) seems like a good idea. The
| only exception is if it is necessary to know the origin and it is
| not intuitively obvious.
I've sent a patch to autoconf-patches.
Should be trivial enough to include in the next release.
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