[svn:parrot] r35909 - trunk/config/gen/makefiles

[jerry gay]

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 20:23, Will Coleda <will at coleda.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Jonathan Worthington
> <jonathan at jnthn.net> wrote:
>> Will Coleda wrote:
>>>
>>> Why we can't just run this test via t/harness?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> That's exactly what the patch does:
>>
>>>> +       $(PERL) t/harness $(EXTRA_TEST_ARGS) -r t/op/annotate.t
>>>>
>>
>> Or am I missing the point? But just feel free, to commit whatever better way
>> you want - the aim is just to run this test also in
>> compile-to-bytecode-first mode on make test, as well as in the normal "just
>> run it" way.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jonathan
>>
>>
>
> Ok, so the -r makes it hard to run as part of the single invocation of
> t/harness that we do with 'make test'
>
> Why do we have to run this one test with -r when we run 'make test'?
> Why not catch it with 'make testr' which is run as part of 'make
> fulltest'?
>
because nobody runs make fulltest. the smokers don't. the users don't.
the developers don't. only the release manager does, once or twice
before a release. i'm not saying that's good, that's just the way it
is.

~jerry