make testall: Warning imported binding for oct/dec overwritten in module Main

[Federico Calboli]

Hi, I'm on OS X 10.9.4, julia Version 0.4.0-dev+200 (2014-08-18 12:54 UTC) Commit ea7b453 (0 days old master), which I just got from the git repo by git fetch && git merge origin.

Make testall gives a SUCCESS with two warnings:

Warning: imported binding for oct overwritten in module Main

Warning: imported binding for dec overwritten in module Main

Can these be ignored?  what's up?

BW

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[Jacob Quinn]

Yes, this can be ignored for now. I need to clean up some local variables in the new dates test suite.

-Jacob

[Stefan Karpinski]

This is because the dates tests overwrite names that have been used. The right solution is to run each test file in an anonymous module so that it doesn't matter what any other test file has done in the same process.

[Stefan Karpinski]

I think the infrastructure is really at fault here – you should be allowed to use these names consistently within a single test file.

[John Myles White]

To cope with these kinds of naming conflicts, I’ve come to run:

(A) My entire test suite for package P in a module TestP.

(B) Each test file F for package P in a submodule of TestP called TestF.

Automating that kind of module creation rather than creating individual modules by hand would be great.

 — John

[Jacob Quinn]

P.S. Should be fixed now. I wrapped the dates tests in their own module.