Request for Review: Make the Queens test ("test in build") an option that can be disabled

[Magnus Ihse Bursie]

On 2012-09-14 15:54, David Holmes wrote:
> Magnus,
>
> This still looks okay to me. My main annoyance is the proliferation of 
> the condition check and the duplication. I know this has taken far too 
> much time already but it seems to me that we should be able to factor:
>
> + ifeq ($(TEST_IN_BUILD),true)
>           cd $(OSNAME)_$(BUILDARCH)_compiler2/$@ && ./test_gamma
> + endif
>
> into a function so that we do:
>
> $(eval $(call do-test-gamma, dir)
>
> where we pass in the target specific directory. And of course the 
> function does nothing if TEST_IN_BUILD is not set.
>
> Just a thought.

I'd rather not do that. The problem with duplication starts on an even 
higher level -- we have three files that do basically the same thing, 
and then in each of these, we have six stanzas that do basically the 
same thing. Trying to remove the duplication in these stanzas, but 
keeping the duplicate stanzas and the duplicate files is like the 
proverbial porcine makeup. But it adds more risk to the fix, and I'll 
have to re-run all testing.

/Magnus