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Re: [PATCH 0/4] Testsuite: check the list of test scripts
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Stefano Lattarini |
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Re: [PATCH 0/4] Testsuite: check the list of test scripts |
Date: |
Sat, 26 Dec 2009 00:23:52 +0100 |
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At Friday 11 December 2009, Stefano Lattarini
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello automakers.
>
> While exploring and editing the automake testsuite, I came across
> three test scripts (acoutbs2.test, badopt.test, extra2.test) which
> were not listed in the $(TESTS) variable, and thus were never run.
> In my opinion, this is a quite bad oversight. In fact, one of the
> tests (acoutbs2.test) consistently failed (luckily, as I soon found
> out, this failure was due to a bug in the test script, not in
> automake).
>
> I'm going to to submit a set of four simple patches regarding the
> described problems.
>
> The first two patches correct the oversight in the definition of
> $(TESTS), and implement a new maintainer-check to make it sure that
> no similar oversight will occur again in future.
>
> The last two patches correct acoutbs2.test spurious failure, and
> (to play safe) also extend the tests `acoutbs.test' and
> `acoutbs2.test' a bit.
>
> I will soon post the described patches.
>
> Regards,
> Stefano
>
Please wait applying this patch series: I forgot to add the
consistency check for the list of tests in lib/Automake/tests/,
and after adding it I found out that some further refactoring was
advisable. I will post the updated/amended patch series in a new
thread as soon as possible.
Regards,
Stefano