[m-dev.] for review: fix for running tests in the term subdirectory

Fergus Henderson fjh at cs.mu.oz.au
Wed Dec 31 03:19:32 AEDT 1997


On 30-Dec-1997, Zoltan Somogyi <zs at cs.mu.oz.au> wrote:
> 
> Fergus, please review this.
> 
> tests/Mmake.common:
> 	Add a new action for removing .trans_opt files.
> 
> tests/term/Mmakefile:
> 	Make "mmake clean" depend on the target that removes .trans_opt files.

Hmm, wouldn't it be better to put this in scripts/Mmake.rules
and/or the *.dep files (which are created by compiler/modules.m),
and/or change the tests/term/runtests file to do
`mmake realclean' rather than `mmake clean'?

> 	Fix the "mmake depend" rule and the make variables on which it depends.

Can you please explain the fix?  What was wrong with them?

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