Re: [TCLCORE] Tcl/Tk 9.0.3 Release Candidate

[Marc C. <cul...@gm...>]

In fact, it is not uncommon for test failures to be related to race
conditions and timings are often different for the development build versus
the deployment build.

- Marc

On Thu, Nov 13, 2025, 3:00 PM Torsten Berg <be...@ty...> wrote:

> Ah, that's interesting. Yes, this sounds like a valid explanation for
> running tests twice. Thanks for sharing!
>
> > Am 13.11.2025 um 17:21 schrieb Erik Leunissen <el...@xs...>:
> >
> > On 11/13/25 01:17, Torsten Berg wrote:
> >> I just wonder why the tests run twice (and for me it also seems that
> during the build things are done multiple teimes) but that may just be my
> lack of wisdom regarding the build process.
> >
> > When I invoke "make test" on macOS from the source code dir, tests are
> run twice:
> > A. optimized (no symbols), indicated by "Deployment"
> > B. unoptimized with debugging symbols, indicated by "Development"
> >
> > I am able to run just one of them when invoking "make test" from the
> respective build directories (siblings of the source directory) [*]:
> > build/Tcl/Deployment
> > build/Tcl/Development
> >
> > That's just what I found out about how things are organized on my
> system. I'm too
> > unfamiliar with macOS to be able to say whether that is how it's
> supposed to be,
> > or whether other setups/invocations are advised.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Erik Leunissen.
> > --
> > [*] the setup for Tk is analoguous
> >
>
>
>
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