From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17750 invoked by alias); 23 Jan 2015 04:48:38 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@zsh.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes List-Id: Zsh Workers List List-Post: List-Help: X-Seq: 34349 Received: (qmail 22026 invoked from network); 23 Jan 2015 04:48:36 -0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on f.primenet.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.1 cv=T/C1EZ6Q c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=3PNjA6Kwp/rSMvuT4/nkrg==:117 a=3PNjA6Kwp/rSMvuT4/nkrg==:17 a=Hpgzp-inWqAA:10 a=N659UExz7-8A:10 a=Csr4cVipIxGqfFpPG2AA:9 a=pILNOxqGKmIA:10 Message-id: <54C1D2A1.60401@eastlink.ca> Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 20:48:33 -0800 From: Ray Andrews User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/31.3.0 MIME-version: 1.0 To: zsh-workers@zsh.org Subject: Re: make check problem References: <54B9AA99.6080403@eastlink.ca> <150116185732.ZM30791@torch.brasslantern.com> <54B9D726.2020108@eastlink.ca> <20150119102910.18102a0b@pwslap01u.europe.root.pri> <54C045A8.10102@eastlink.ca> <54C13593.9040602@eastlink.ca> <150122095610.ZM11712@torch.brasslantern.com> <54C1406B.40102@eastlink.ca> <150122200237.ZM12001@torch.brasslantern.com> In-reply-to: <150122200237.ZM12001@torch.brasslantern.com> Content-type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit On 01/22/2015 08:02 PM, Bart Schaefer wrote: > It's checked for the obvious QA reason: If it *is* there, then you want > to know that it's working correctly. The test suite has to be reasonbly > comprehensive, not depend on local configurations. Sure, it is better to test too much than not enough. I'm just excusing myself from persueing it for so long at your expence, only to find that I don't want it anyway, because it isn't obvious what is or is not important there. One might speculate about some way to improve the test such that it knows that it's not even available (and very optional besides) and just bows out or says "optional feature pcre not available" or something. Anyway, your edits to the test seem just fine. The next guy won't have this issue.