James Keenan via RT wrote: > The build tools tests are intended to be run after someone has made > changes in modules such as lib/Parrot/Pmc2cUtils/, Ops2cUtils and > Ops2pmutils/. They're set up to be run after Configure.pl has completed > but before make has been invoked. (In fact, they will generate errors > if make has completed.) You can run them with any of the following: > > perl Configure.pl --test > > perl Configure.pl --test=build > > make buildtools_tests (following Configure.pl)
I've added this information to docs/tests. There was one line in the cage cleaners' guide about it, but that didn't really jump out at me. :) > My hunch is that the test file needs a little tweak to match the change > of behavior introduced by your patch. Can you take a look at revising > that test file? Done! -- Timesharing just doesn't work. -K. Thompson, 1982.
