[Ns-bugs] [Bug 335] ./waf --regression no longer works without mercurial present

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http://www.nsnam.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=335





------- Comment #6 from tomh at tomh.org  2008-09-14 13:52 -------
(In reply to comment #5)
> Well, I don't know about operator error.  The way the test for hg has been done
> has changed.  The sequence Tom posted worked fine until last week, but the test
> for hg is no longer dynamic, it is now based on configure results; so the way
> the regression tests work has quietly changed.
> 
> That said, I'm fine with having to type configure in order to change how the
> regression tests behave.  It just means changing (slightly) the way I've been
> doing some of the final tarball tests.  This is a case where I knew too much
> about how the internals of the wscript were working and I knew I could do this
> without doing the configure.
> 
> I'll go ahead and (re) close this bug and assume that our policy from now on is
> that any change to the underlying system like this requires a ./waf configure
> (and that any future test should be based on configure results).
> 

I think it is reasonable to reconfigure when the system changes.  I would not
have reopened the bug for that reason.


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