On 10/01/07, Geir Magnusson Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Jan 10, 2007, at 8:34 AM, Alexei Zakharov wrote: > Alex : >> In any case, when compiling this on a Mac, it was >> falling over in the Ant build looking for an "excludes.Mac OS >> X.ppc.ibm" file. I had to copy one of the existing ones over just to >> move past that hurdle. > > This is because nobody else was trying to run tests on Mac. In your > case you just need to create an empty file with such name if you want > to run SegmentTest. BTW we need to add such files (probably as well as > "excludes.Mac OS X.x86.ibm" "excludes.Mac OS X.x86.drlvm") to every > module if we want to run tests under MacOS. That's going to be a barrier for people. Can we be optimistic rather than pessimistic, and change the build to use, in the absence of the specific platform file, a "generic" or "base" exclude list? (We talked about this a while ago, I think...)
Should probably be additive, too, rather than replace it. For example, the SegmentTest was commented out in all platforms. That would have been better solved by having a generic/base ommission of SegmentTest, whilst still allowing a platform-specific excludes file that allows extra tests to also be excluded. But I don't believe you should have to re-list SegmentTest in the platform-specific excludes file just because it was in the platform-agnostic excludes file when it was written. Alex.
