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Friday November 03, 2006

Testing nightly(1)

I've been making a lot of changes to nightly(1), the main ON build script. With most of the build tools, you can test your changes by adding the -t flag to your nightly options, but that doesn't work for nightly itself.

For awhile, I was making $HOME/bin/nightly.new be a symbolic link to the new version, in whatever workspace it lived in. That got a bit awkward if I had more than one workspace with changes to nightly. Worse, because I had set things up so that I didn't really have to think about what I was doing, well, I wouldn't think about what I was doing--I would invoke nightly.new before invoking make to update it.

So now I manually do

$ cp usr/src/tools/proto/opt/onbld/bin/nightly ~/bin/nightly.new

It's more typing, but I've had to rerun fewer tests than I used to.

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