Re: Test failure tests/date/date-tests with current CVS

[Jim Meyering]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
> Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> You can work around the problem by removing all of the
>> *-tests files from your checked-out directory:
>>
>>   rm `find tests -name '*-tests'`
>>
>> I've removed those (generated) files from CVS,
>> so they shouldn't cause any more trouble.
>
> I was about to report the same problem (after suffering from it for a
> few months -- I never got around to reporting it but somehow it bugged
> me this morning, what a coincidence!).  It appears that your fix of
> removing *-tests from CVS has not been pushed out to me,

I've just run rsync.

> but I just
> wanted to mention (in case you didn't notice already) a couple of things:
>
> 1.  The file src/du-tests looks out of place.

It was good enough for my purpose, but it's not portable
and not even reliable on my development system.
I used it while revamping du to help ensure that my
changes didn't have unwanted side effects.
I suppose it belongs in tests/du/.

> 2.  The files tests/ls/ls-tests and tests/tr/range-tests are not
> removed by "make maintainer-clean"; is this intentional?  I didn't
> remove them in my copy, as it wasn't necessary to remove them to fix
> the "make check" problem.

Those files deserved to be removed :-)

ls/ls-tests was once generated, but hasn't been used for a long time
tr/range-tests contained testing notes from 10 years ago.