Thanks, guys, for your replies! Sorry to take so long to get
back to you.
Unfortunately, I didn't install all the build tools I needed
before the Ubuntu 13.10 repositories were decommissioned. I'll
need to upgrade my OS first, now. I apologize for the delay this
will introduce. B-[
David: a unified approach to tests handling exit status sounds
like a reasonable project goal to me.
Bob
On Sun, 23 Jul 2017 20:44:38 -0400 Ken Hornstein <k...@pobox.com> sez:
> >Note: I've not yet upgraded from the ancient (and unsupported)
> >Ubuntu 13.10. I'm planning to upgrade to the latest LTS
> >soon-ish. Do you think that will pose issues that I should
> >investigate (and deal with) before getting too far into things?
>
> We are targeting relatively modern POSIX; there might be a few
> things that don't exist on older systems, but it's hard for me
> to predict exactly what they would be. I'd say try it and find
> out.
On Sun, 23 Jul 2017 20:51:18 -0400 David Levine <levin...@acm.org> sez:
> Bob writes:
>
> > of recent test coding (though not necessarily as defined template
> > for all aspects of testing going forward -- in particular, that
> > just checking the exit status is sufficient).
>
> The tests handle exit status differently, it would be nice if it
> was unified.
>
> > Note: I've not yet upgraded from the ancient (and unsupported)
> > Ubuntu 13.10.
>
> I built on Ubuntu 12 recently without any issues.
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