On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 3:31 PM, Mike Hommey <m...@glandium.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 02, 2015 at 10:01:45AM -0700, Eric Rescorla wrote:
> > > Because the win is small, it shouldn't be a priority, but requiring
> > > something like --enable-cpp-tests should be ok to do (and of course
> > > automation would do that) if/when someone finds time.
>
> With the way the build system works currently, an option would be worse,
> because if you forget it, then you end up rebuilding everything (because
> switching the flag will change autoconf.mk, and virtually everything is
> rebuilt when this file changes)
>
> > It's not clear to me that whether the CPP unit tests getting rebuild is a
> > good
> > proxy for whether they need to be rerun, given shared libraries and the
> > like.
>
> They are not rebuilt when shared libraries change.


Right, but they still need to be *run* when the shared libraries change
in many cases.

-Ekr


> Mike
>
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