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From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: Philipp <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
Cc: 30700@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#30700: 27.0.50; Broken tests on macOS
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2018 17:48:35 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <fssh9ef8ak.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2vaebacgx.fsf@gmail.com> (Philipp's message of "Sun, 04 Mar 2018 20:05:02 +0100")

Philipp wrote:

> 1. Instead of invoking GCC, save GCC's output once in a checked-in file.
>    That makes the test more robust and reproducible because it no longer
>    depends on the behavior of external programs.

To me, part of the point of tests like these is to flag when changes
(or local variations in behaviour) in the external tool necessitate
changes in Emacs.





  reply	other threads:[~2018-03-05 22:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-04 19:05 bug#30700: 27.0.50; Broken tests on macOS Philipp
2018-03-05 22:48 ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2018-03-19 12:59 ` Alan Third
2019-01-06 22:40   ` Alan Third
2019-04-17 18:56     ` Philipp Stephani
2019-04-17 19:25 ` Philipp Stephani
2019-10-09 14:13 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-11-11  1:52   ` Stefan Kangas

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