From c9803ab855f7c96278952627dec44899b78d109a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Skip Montanaro Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 16:17:27 +0000 Subject: add Guido's reasoning behind running all tests twice --- Makefile.pre.in | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) 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 -- cgit v0.12