Re: GNU RCS 5.7.93 (pretest for 5.8) available

() [email protected] (Ludovic Courtès)
() Tue, 28 Sep 2010 18:33:55 +0200

   Congratulations for this brave endeavor!  :-)

Well, RCS and Emacs led me to GNU, so it's the least i could do...

     1. The tests do “. common”, which means that ‘common’ is looked up in
        $PATH, which fails unless ‘.’ is in $PATH.

OK, fixed.

     2. Why is a custom ‘check-TESTS’ target needed in the ‘v’ (!)
        directory?

     3. Why move executables from ‘src’ to ‘src/0pre/bin’?

     4. How about using ‘set -e’ in test scripts?

The testing ("validation" for some) was grown organically and is due
for some normalization; see my reply to Ralf Wildenhues for details.

     5. The ‘rlog’ program as run by the tests segfaults:

     [details]

Interesting.  Can you reproduce this on the gcc compile farm
somewhere?  Alternatively, what do i need to do to get a shell
account where this occurs for debugging purposes?

   Well, I hope this helps.  :-)

Thanks for trying it out.