Re: removal of kill?

[Pádraig Brady]

On 10/11/15 07:27, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> On 11/10/2015 12:54 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> For these reasons I might just keep the test cleanups
>> from my previous patch but continue to build kill by default?
> 
> +1
> 
>>From a packager's point of view, it's very easy to either use
> --enable-no-install-program=... or simply to remove the binary
> and the man page afterward.  I find it more complicated [1][2]
> to remove all occurrences from the Texinfo documentation - which
> the above switch doesn't accomplish btw.

I see that there were various issues apart from the texinfo docs
related to --enable-no-install-program, where tests would depend on
programs being built.  Hopefully that's mostly addressed in the
attached patch set.

> For upstream development, I'd prefer to always build all tools.
> We have to ensure that all tools still build, leave alone the
> dramatic decrease of test coverage of those programs.
> Therefore, I'd rather like to see all tools built here ...
> maybe similar to have we enabled -Werror when .git exists?

A good idea.

cheers,
Pádraig.

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