summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2009-03-27 09:50:06 +0100
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2009-03-27 09:50:06 +0100
commit0fe95f9c4ce063781e79a15bc123c57c33ef9755 (patch)
treeae40da0b7b3fefe85e760e6f12692dd8995995ac
parent7ca96180f00800414a9cf855e5ca4dceb9baca07 (diff)
downloadguile-0fe95f9c4ce063781e79a15bc123c57c33ef9755.tar.gz
Improve wording in `libguile/Makefile.am' regarding stack calibration.
* libguile/Makefile.am (stack-limit-calibration.scm): Improve wording of the comment. Suggested by Neil Jerram.
-rw-r--r--libguile/Makefile.am13
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/libguile/Makefile.am b/libguile/Makefile.am
index 044e0b6d0..580114093 100644
--- a/libguile/Makefile.am
+++ b/libguile/Makefile.am
@@ -353,18 +353,17 @@ endif
# Stack limit calibration to allow the compiler to run when creating
# the initial `.go' files and for `make check'. (For why we do this, see
-# the comments in measure-hwm.scm.) We're relying here on a couple of
-# bits of Automake magic.
+# the comments in measure-hwm.scm.)
#
-# 1. The fact that "libguile" comes before "module" and "test-suite"
-# in SUBDIRS in our toplevel Makefile.am. This ensures that the
+# The fact that "libguile" comes before "module" and "test-suite"
+# in SUBDIRS in our toplevel Makefile.am ensures that the
# stack-limit-calibration.scm program will be run before we compile
# files or run tests.
#
-# 2. Why don't we care about the test "actually passing"? Because the
+# We don't care about the exit code of `measure-hwm.scm' because the
# important thing about stack-limit-calibration.scm is just that it is
-# generated in the first place, so that other tests under test-suite
-# can use it.
+# generated in the first place, so that it can be loaded in `am/guilec'
+# and by the test suite.
BUILT_SOURCES += stack-limit-calibration.scm
stack-limit-calibration.scm: measure-hwm.scm guile$(EXEEXT)