Why did you remove that "unnecessary" link?
Hal Murray
hmurray at megapathdsl.net
Sun Aug 14 18:07:47 UTC 2016
esr at thyrsus.com said:
> You broke my test setup. The purpose of that link was to allow the
> neighboring pyntpq script to import ntp.packet even when the corresponding
> Python module under pylib hasn't been installed in rootspace. Which it
> never is, yet - the waf production to do that hasn't landed.
> I guess I'll add a README so this doesn't happen again.
Sorry. I thought I was helping by removing some cruft. It built and tested
without that link.
Can you add a test that will catch it?
That opens up the whole mess of testing with local libraries vs installed
libraries. I remember lots of "fun" in that area for gpsd.
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