[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: [liblouis/liblouis] 553bdb: tests/harness/runHarness.py: deduplicate error rep...

  • From: Bert Frees <bertfrees@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 11:37:01 +0200

Mesar Hameed writes:

> On Mon 13/10/14,11:19, Bert Frees wrote:
>> > The runharness can be run independantly of the makefile, so no harm in
>> > having the compact as default output.
>> 
>> Shouldn't we tell people to use it with the Makefile only? The Makefile
>> automatically sets up the TABLEPATH path and LDLIBRARYPATH
>> etc.
>
> the python code checks if it is being run from the makefile, and if not
> sets up the necessary environment.
> This is because if the person is debugging a particular table, they
> probably don't want to spend the round trip time on processing all other
> harness files, and filter out accordingly.

I think I added a rule in the Makefile to run only one harness file. So no
need to run the whole test suite. Anyway, if you think it doesn't matter
it's ok.
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