Re: make distcheck in tinderbox [was Re: make check failures- gnome-vfs, e-d-s, at-spi]



On 7/18/05, Ikke <eikke eikke com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 13:15 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 13:03 -0400, Luis Villa wrote:
> > > On 7/18/05, Elijah Newren <newren gmail com> wrote:
> > > > On 7/18/05, Luis Villa <luis villa gmail com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > P.S. It was suggested that I should 'make distcheck' in tinderbox.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > Opinions?
> > > >
> > > > Luis is cool for doing all this tinderbox work.
> > >
> > > Heh. Thank James mostly; he wrote the code and I'm just whining obsessively.
> > >
> > > > > Sane? Insane?
> > > >
> > > > Does it matter?  I think it'd be useful, though I'm betting libwnck
> > > > fails and I'll be unable to fix it (I wasn't able to last time I
> > > > tried, but thankfully people smarter than I are handling the
> > > > releases...)
> > >
> > > Let me ask the question in a more detailed fashion:
> > > * would it be useful? It was suggested to me that it would make
> > > snapshotting easier (since things would be basically guaranteed to
> > > build in a packagable fashion), but are there reasons past that?
> > >
> > > * would it be feasible? I'm not going to test something if it is (1)
> > > likely to be broken 90% of the time and (2) james and thomas are the
> > > only people with enough skills to fix the problems. Nor does forcing
> > > all maintainers to learn more auto* seem like a reasonable use of
> > > anyone's time.
> > >
> >
> > It would certainly make tinderbox builds much slower, since e.g.
> > distchecking gtk requires building the docs.
> >
> > Matthias
> I think the advantages of adding make distcheck are bigger than the
> disadvantages.

OK, but what are they? :)

> In the end, being able to do make a tinderbox with make distcheck and
> CFLAGS+="-Wall -Werror -pedantic -ansi" would be so cool ;-)

Would definitely love to have a 'secondary' tinderbox run with
pedantic/wall/werror turned on so that those are so inclined can chase
those things down.

Luis



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