Re: Gotcher with make test-baseline

[David Kastrup]

Ian Hulin <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi All,
>
> I was getting very puzzled by a crash in running make test-baseline, so
> I thought I'd share what cause the problem here with the other
> developers to save others wasting time.
>
> I was working on a branch and wanted to change some files in scm/, so
> had them open in emacs.
>
> I stashed my changed files and checked out master, ran ./autogen and did
> a make all.
>
> However, make test-baseline barfed at the final hurdle because it
> couldn't find a symbol link reference to an emacs journal file.
>
> Any need for us to bullet-proof the makefiles to ignore files with base
> starting .# ?

That's a lock file, not a "journal file".  And yes, that would be handy.

On a different tack, it is distasteful that our makefiles work with
wildcards.  It would be an improvement if they at least asked something
like "git ls-files" for registered files.

-- 
David Kastrup