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| author | Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> | 2003-05-06 16:17:27 (GMT) |
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| committer | Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> | 2003-05-06 16:17:27 (GMT) |
| commit | c9803ab855f7c96278952627dec44899b78d109a (patch) | |
| tree | 916a39850a6a913b9a09afce77984a2c2ceb643e | |
| parent | 1a56665e39e4ee3cb29519a1cb58f2ab077622f1 (diff) | |
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add Guido's reasoning behind running all tests twice
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diff --git a/Makefile.pre.in b/Makefile.pre.in index 207798e..843c50f 100644 --- a/Makefile.pre.in +++ b/Makefile.pre.in @@ -514,6 +514,13 @@ $(LIBRARY_OBJS) $(MODOBJS) Modules/$(MAINOBJ): $(PYTHON_HEADERS) ###################################################################### # Test the interpreter (twice, once without .pyc files, once with) +# In the past, we've had problems where bugs in the marshalling or +# elsewhere caused bytecode read from .pyc files to behave differently +# than bytecode generated directly from a .py source file. Sometimes +# the bytecode read from a .pyc file had the bug, somtimes the directly +# generated bytecode. This is sometimes a very shy bug needing a lot of +# sample data. + TESTOPTS= -l TESTPROG= $(srcdir)/Lib/test/regrtest.py TESTPYTHON= $(RUNSHARED) ./$(BUILDPYTHON) -E -tt |