From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: noloader@gmail.com, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: make check fails due to missing test directory
Date: Sat, 04 May 2019 18:44:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877eb6i2yx.fsf@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190504092406.GA4139@ACM> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Sat, 4 May 2019 09:24:06 +0000")
Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:
> Hello, Paul
Hi Alan,
> The tests in make check are development tests. They're not build tests.
> In fact, they're fairly useless for anybody who isn't developing Emacs.
> Somebody who is developing Emacs will have the git repository.
If people report a Tramp problem I'm not able to reproduce, I encourage
them to run tramp-tests. Of course, with a proper remote target directory,
controlled by environment variables.
Best regards, Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-05-04 16:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-05-03 18:41 make check fails due to missing test directory Jeffrey Walton
2019-05-03 19:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-03 22:01 ` Paul Eggert
2019-05-04 9:24 ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-05-04 15:56 ` Paul Eggert
2019-05-04 16:44 ` Michael Albinus [this message]
2019-05-16 17:54 ` Emacs distribution tarball now supports 'make check' Paul Eggert
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