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diff --git a/tests/ChangeLog b/tests/ChangeLog index dd763b1b..b40612f6 100644 --- a/tests/ChangeLog +++ b/tests/ChangeLog @@ -1,14 +1,45 @@ +1999-09-16 Paul D. Smith <psmith@gnu.org> + + * scripts/features/reinvoke: Remove invocations of "touch" in + makefiles. See the comments on the touch function rewrite below. + Note that UNIX touch behaves the same way if the file already + exists: it sets the time to the _local_ time. We don't want + this. This is probably a good tip for makefile writers in + general, actually... where practical. + * scripts/options/dash-l: Ditto. + * scripts/options/dash-n: Ditto. + + * test_driver.pl (run_each_test): In retrospect, I don't like the + .lN/.bN/.dN postfix required by DOS. So, for non-DOS systems I + changed it back to use .log, .base, and .diff. + + * run_make_tests.pl (set_more_defaults): Move the check for the + make pathname to here from set_defaults (that's too early since it + happens before the command line processing). + Create a new variable $port_type, calculated from $osname, to + specify what kind of system we're running on. We should integrate + the VOS stuff here, too. + (valid_option): Comment out the workdir/-work stuff so people + won't be fooled into thinking it works... someone needs to fix + this, though! + + * scripts/functions/origin: Use $port_type instead of $osname. + * scripts/functions/foreach: Ditto. + * scripts/features/default_names: Ditto. + 1999-09-15 Paul D. Smith <psmith@gnu.org> * test_driver.pl (touch): Rewrite this function. Previously it used to use utime() to hard-set the time based on the current - local clock. This fails badly on networked filesystems where the - FS server clock is skewed from the local clock: normally modifying - a file causes it to get a mod time based on the _server's_ clock. - Hard-setting it based on the _local_ clock causes gratuitous - errors and makes the tests unreliable except on local filesystems. - The new function will simply modify the file, allowing the - filesystem to set the mod time as it sees fit. + local clock, or, if the file didn't exist, it merely created it. + This mirrors exactly what real UNIX touch does, but it fails badly + on networked filesystems where the FS server clock is skewed from + the local clock: normally modifying a file causes it to get a mod + time based on the _server's_ clock. Hard-setting it based on the + _local_ clock causes gratuitous errors and makes the tests + unreliable except on local filesystems. The new function will + simply modify the file, allowing the filesystem to set the mod + time as it sees fit. * scripts/features/parallelism: The second test output could change depending on how fast some scripts completed; use "sleep" |