Re: Changing AT_CHECK

[François Pinard]

[Akim Demaille]

> I'm not too much in favor of restoring this feature: option -n used to
> disable the redirection and checking of stdout and stderr.  I practiced
> Autotest quite a lot, and my opinion is that this is not needed.  But of
> course, it's only mine.  Since I know, François, that you use Autotest
> too, I'd like to have your opinion too.

Hello, Akim, and friends.

I do not have a strong opinion on the matter, I did not need `-n' recently.
That option was defeating checking magic, with the goal of getting more
verbosity and less automatism, for when one wants more clues or explicit
feedback about a particular problem.  Most of times, I was editing the
generated checking script "by hand", so a bit less or bit more probably
does not make much difference.

> For your information, here is the resulting AT_CHECK.  I also think
> `0' is a better default for the expected exit status, as opposed to
> `ignore'.

Easily agreed! :-)

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