Re: 07-autotest-others.patch

[Gary V . Vaughan]

On Friday 17 August 2001 1:03 pm, Akim Demaille wrote:
> In order to use this patch, I'm afraid you need an installed CVS
> Autoconf in /usr/local :(

No stress.  That is my setup anyway =)O|

> I will soon release another Autoconf beta, so that instead of using a
> CVS version we can rely on a plain tarball, but moving M4's test suite
> to Autotest revealed many problems with Autotest.  Some of them are
> solved, other require some thinking/debating with other people (see
> the Autoconf ML for more).
>
> Therefore, it is premature to release one such beta...

Sure.  As long as there is a release of autocof at or around the time m4-1.5 
is released, I see no reason to worry about having CVS revisions of these 
tools rely on one another.

> Another problem is that there is one file which has to be created that
> is not: tests/atconfig.  In a proper world, it is build from
> atconfig.in, but there are still details to fix.  In the meanwhile,
> here is that file.  Paste it in tests/.  Don't even try to have M4
> work with build != src.
>
> Finally, some tests (2) will fail.  There are related to conflicts
> between autom4te's view about trailing blanks, and some such trailing
> blanks in the documentation.
>
> Other than that, I'm happy with this new test suite.

Cool!  Thanks.

Cheers,
        Gary.
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