testing

[Eric Lindblad]

Having modified software packages' creation scripts some of which use patches, I'm familiar with their use and authorship. It was the specific patch Olly mentioned which I did not know yet if it was needed or indicated.

Obviously autoconf is indicated for a bootstrap when xapian is obtained from Github, but, the package maintainer for the MSYS2/MINGW xapian-core1.4.1 had not listed autoconf as a dependency.

Therefore when compiling from xapian from source should autoconf be present? Running 'make check' on autoconf on MSYS2/MINGW hangs on the 203rd test, and, having never used 'rebaseall', which someone recommended to attend to hanging tests on Cygwin and derivatives, does anyone have an opinion about running 'rebaseall'? 

https://sourceforge.net/projects/msys2/files/REPOS/MINGW/i686/
mingw-w64-i686-xapian-core-1.4.1-1-any.pkg.tar.xz
https://sourceforge.net/projects/msys2/files/REPOS/MINGW/Sources/
mingw-w64-xapian-core-1.4.1-1.src.tar.xz

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On Wed, 12/14/16, Olly Betts <olly at survex.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: testing
 To: "Eric Lindblad" <geirfuglaps at yahoo.com>
 Cc: "Xapian Discussion" <xapian-discuss at lists.xapian.org>
 Date: Wednesday, December 14, 2016, 11:05 PM
 
 On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at
 03:32:34PM +0000, Eric Lindblad wrote:
 >
 Unclear yet about any possible use of patches
 
 If you mean you don't know
 how to use them, then https://www.drupal.org/patch
 has a good guide to applying (and generating)
 patches, little of which is
 specific to
 drupal.
 
 Cheers,
    
 Olly