Re: CVS commit: src/tests/lib/libm

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On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 05:32:42AM +0700, Robert Elz wrote:
>     Date:        Wed, 26 Jul 2017 00:31:48 +0300
>     From:        Valery Ushakov <uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost>
>     Message-ID:  <20170725213148.GA16493%pony.stderr.spb.ru@localhost>
> 
>   | You can do that in your tree, not in the public repo.
> 
> coypu - an alternative would be to make a test that (when run as a test,
> rather than when being built) attempts to compile code to use whatever
> interface that is, so that the test fails if the interface doesn't exist,
> rather than actually breaking the build, if the test cannot be compiled and
> installed.

It's a minor inconvenience to fix a critical bug.
we have a lot more of those, as libm's makefile is a trainwreck.