Re: generating testsuite in bootstrap?

[Eric Blake]

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According to Ralf Wildenhues on 2/13/2008 3:36 PM:
| Hello,
|
| is it worthwhile to generate m4/tests/testsuite from within bootstrap,
| so that then,
|   ./configure && make all install
|
| does not need the autotools?

Sounds like a good argument to me - allowing you to run bootstrap on a git
checkout on a full-fledged machine, then copy the directory structure over
to a punier machine to see how things fare.  However, looking at history:

http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=m4.git;a=commitdiff;h=be70d90

there was a point in time where half of the testsuite was generated at
bootstrap (but not the part that required autom4te).  So this would be a
change in the opposite direction.  I'm also worried about timestamps; one
of the tests makes sure __m4_version__ outputs the same thing as what
configure.ac uses, and I still haven't gotten git-version-gen working
nicely with m4.  I'll play with the idea some, but it's too early to tell
whether I'll commit a patch along these lines.  Fortunately, 'make dist'
makes sure the testsuite is up-to-date, so a snapshot tarball does not
need autotools to be tested.

- --
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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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