Re: make check problem

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jan 22, 10:24am, Ray Andrews wrote:
}
} I get the feeling that this pcre isn't important, still one might 
} consider 'not available' to be something to worry about if you didn't 
} know it wasn't, since one might ask why it's checked if it *isn't* 
} important.  (Or checked at all if it is explicitly not available.)

The test suite doesn't know what's available and what's not until it
tries ... and being able to correctly determine that it's [not] there
(i.e., that zmodload does the right thing) is one of the things the
tests are supposed to cover.

It's checked for the obvious QA reason: If it *is* there, then you want
to know that it's working correctly.  The test suite has to be reasonbly
comprehensive, not depend on local configurations.

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Barton E. Schaefer