On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 02:11:22PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > robert wrote: > > working on the Expect build at > > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/chapter05/expect.html > > > > instructions say: > > "running the test suite is not mandatory ..." > > > > I do so anyway. [...] > > Should I be concerned ... or just plow on into the future? > > Keep going. It depends on the host system. I just ran it on a > relatively current lfs-svn and it showed no failed tests. > > -- Bruce > Running the chapter 5 tests *might* be occasionally useful for people who follow, or are changing, the development book (and who have data to show what used to happen). For everyone else, the tests in chapter 5 are a distraction: they might conceivably highlight that you did something wrong, or missed a package, but since almost nobody runs them, it's hard to know.
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