[Expat-bugs] expat: make check fails
Fred L. Drake, Jr.
fdrake at acm.org
Thu Aug 7 11:24:32 EDT 2003
Sven Utcke writes:
> Ok. I would still claim that the above is a bug though, as most
> configure-based software (or maybe I should call it GNUish sw?) would
> allow you to type "make check" to run the included unit tests, rather
> than to compile a framework for unit-tests which needs to be
> downloaded separately.
Perhaps. I've certainly considered removing the requirement, but
haven't had time to do so, and the priority seems low.
> At the very least I would expect the README to point out this
> idiosyncrasy and tell me where to get (and where to put) check [please
Understood. There is a note in the version of the README in our CVS
repository, so the next Expat release will include such a note.
> note that I do not mean to slight anybody --- I'm sure there was some
> reason to do things the way they were done; all I'm trying to do is to
> point out that in my opinion this is not the behaviour the majority of
> people would expect --- and I consider such startling behaviour a bug]
Understood. It's not unreasonable to expect a bit more from
configure, but I'm afraid our autoconf expert has been more than a
little busy lately.
-Fred
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