Keeping clean build and test status

[Carlos O'Donell]

On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Joseph S. Myers
<joseph@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> At least on x86_64, the commit
>
> commit 3134156779108fe8b46e0f4cd60d837572faaa93
> Author: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@gmail.com>
> Date:   Sat Feb 25 23:18:39 2012 -0500
>
>    First steps to get conformtest fully working
>
> appears to have:
>
> * Prevented "make check" from completing cleanly, because the newly run
> tests fail.
>
> * Also prevented "make check" from completing cleanly, by making the
> check-localplt test fail, with a new PLT entry for dirfd.  It looks like
> this is the result of the changes to include/dirent.h

This work should have been done on a branch and merged to trunk when ready.

> Comments on the principle of keeping build and test results clean?

I agree. The should be to have trunk build and test clean.

Otherwise it makes bisecting bugs hard.

Cheers,
Carlos.