* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 09:53:17PM CEST: > I ping this again, since I'm pretty sure it has fallen off your radar. > > I say so because, since the last ping, you have applied (or at least > commented) much bigger and potentially more invasive patches of mine, > but not this one. > > BTW, In the meantime, I've also made some small improvements to the > test script, which are IMO quite valuable.
Thanks. There is a typo diagnositic in the comments. The test doesn't look safe for MinGW. Its 'ln -s' is emulated by 'cp -p' which, from looking at the test, will cause a failure not a skip. I'm wondering whether we should be throwing short file name support out of the window completely with Automake; this is an issue for this test because distlinksbrk.test shares >= 8 characters before the dot with distlinks.test; info Autoconf 'File System Conventions' has details. So far we don't have many files which don't adhere to this. (It's not necessary to limit names to 8 characters, but for the one registry setting they should be unique when taking only the first 8, plus the first three of the extension.) Comments? Thanks, Ralf > From bf254929cc79c1ae4d7572e64e5ac38da74255e8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattar...@gmail.com> > Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 15:40:16 +0200 > Subject: [PATCH] New test: distributed broken symlinks cause failure. > > * tests/distlinksbrk.test: New test. > * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.