Re: [ID 20010219.012] Not OK: perl v5.7.0 +DEVEL8840 oni386-freebsd4.0-release

How could you tell the difference between a failure from bad option and a
Configure error - "syntax error in line 6734"?

R.

On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, H.Merijn Brand wrote:

> On Wed, 21 Feb 2001 11:40:28 +0100, Richard Foley <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Richard Soderberg wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Richard Foley wrote:
> > > 
> > > > a mail to [email protected] with the following (nearly inherent)
> > > > hints:
> > > 
> > > >       category=dailybuild
> > > >       status=open|closed
> > > >       severity=fatal|high
> > > 
> > > ack=yes|no
> > > 
> > > Builds that have no test failures could be ok reports, too.
> > > Builds that don't successfully compile get a severity=fatal.
> > > 
> > > Very nice.
> > 
> > Is 'dailybuild' appropriate, or should that read something else?
> > 
> > I guess it would be sensible if it was something along the lines of the 
> > mailing list address name (smokers|testpilots|...) for consistency. 
> 
> Should we report "Configure failures" as
> 
>   [ ] Not at all
>   [ ] Success
>   [ ] Failure
>   [ ] Other
> 
> Here I mean that Configure is unable to proceed with the given configuration,
> e.g. 'Configure -Dusethreads' on a system that does /not/ support threads or
> 'Configure -Duse64bitall' on an OS that does not support 64 bit operations.
> 
>