Re: 2.63b autotest vs. bison testsuite

2009-04-24 Thread Eric Blake
Ralf Wildenhues Ralf.Wildenhues at gmx.de writes: I'm thinking of applying this series; any problems? The first (very minor) one that I see is that your log messages are not verbose enough for me to follow. For example, this: Addressed in the refactored series, shown below. I'll wait a

Re: 2.63b autotest vs. bison testsuite

2009-04-24 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Eric, * Eric Blake wrote on Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 04:54:21PM CEST: Ralf Wildenhues Ralf.Wildenhues at gmx.de writes: I'm thinking of applying this series; any problems? The first (very minor) one that I see is that your log messages are not verbose enough for me to follow. For

Re: 2.63b autotest vs. bison testsuite

2009-04-23 Thread Eric Blake
Eric Blake ebb9 at byu.net writes: Of the three, only the last one presents any backwards incompatibilities, but as the bison testsuite recently went through some serious hoops to try to work around AT_CHECK failing to shell-escape macro contents, it seems like it is a true bug fix as opposed

Re: 2.63b autotest vs. bison testsuite

2009-04-22 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Eric Blake on 4/15/2009 2:05 PM: I'm wondering whether s/AT_CHECK_NOESCAPE/AT_CHECK_EXPAND/g would be good. Even with that, the name makes me think that the macro would do something different with its first argument, rather than

Re: 2.63b autotest vs. bison testsuite

2009-04-13 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Eric Blake on 4/6/2009 11:14 AM: probably need to teach more of autotest about automake's recent addition of status 99 meaning hardfail (not even XFAIL can exempt it from making the overall testsuite report failure), but that is why

Re: 2.63b autotest vs. bison testsuite

2009-04-10 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Ralf Wildenhues on 4/6/2009 12:03 PM: Hi Eric, * Eric Blake wrote on Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 07:14:36PM CEST: Ralf, do you think we should also add a 'parallel syntax check' test? Yes, definitely. And thanks for this patch and the

Re: 2.63b autotest vs. bison testsuite

2009-04-09 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Eric Blake on 4/6/2009 11:14 AM: Second, in the presence of a botched test (here, autotest botched it; but it is also conceivable that a developer could do likewise), the overall testsuite status was dependent on whether a previous

Re: 2.63b autotest vs. bison testsuite

2009-04-09 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Eric Blake on 4/9/2009 6:56 AM: However, this patch now makes an empty test fail instead of pass, which causes a regression in our testsuite. AT_SETUP([empty test]) AT_CLEANUP So I'm working on fixing that. Done as follows.

Re: 2.63b autotest vs. bison testsuite

2009-04-07 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Eric Blake wrote on Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 08:16:28PM CEST: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/autoconf.git/commit/?id=abe172 Well, that patch was indeed the cause of a regression. However, bison was lucky that it was not using a shell comment, which is broken even in 2.63. Here's the

2.63b autotest vs. bison testsuite

2009-04-06 Thread Eric Blake
Found this while running the bison testsuite after upgrading to 2.63b: $ make check TESTSUITEFLAGS=56-57 ... ## -- ## ## GNU Bison 2.4.284-3583 test suite. ## ## -- ## Output file names. 56: Output file name: )

Re: 2.63b autotest vs. bison testsuite

2009-04-06 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Eric, * Eric Blake wrote on Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 07:14:36PM CEST: Ralf, do you think we should also add a 'parallel syntax check' test? Yes, definitely. And thanks for this patch and the testsuite size reduction! Cheers, Ralf