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Re: [RFC 3/3] Test on solib load and unload


On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 12:19 PM, Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> wrote:
> Doug> I like tests that leave things behind afterwards so that if I want to
> Doug> run things by hand afterwards I can easily do so.
>
> Yes, that's definitely good.
>
> Doug> Let "make clean" clean up build artifacts.
> Doug> [Our testsuite "make clean" rules are always lagging behind, but with some
> Doug> conventions in the perf testsuite we can make this a tractable problem.
>
> I really dislike the "make clean" rules, mostly because they mean
> maintaining a huge number of Makefiles just for this one purpose.
>
> In GDB_PARALLEL mode, "make clean" works by zapping a few
> directories... much nicer :-).  On my branch I removed all those
> Makefiles too.  I'm curious whether I ought to try to upstream this.

zapping directories is another way to go, I know it's been discussed
on and off for years.
I hesitate to mention it because I too am not sure whether upstream
would accept it.
It is nicer ...


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