Re: automake: tap-driver.sh: cleanup and revival.

[Mike Mestnik]

On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 4:07 PM, Mathieu Lirzin <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Mike Mestnik <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Somethings I'v spotted that are driving me nuts.
>> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/automake.git/tree/lib/tap-driver.sh#n100
>> Clearly indicates that "--color-tests=yes" is the only way to enable
>> color, there is no auto-detecting a PTY or any support for the
>> documented "--color-tests=always"
>
> The detection is done in the generated Makefile which invokes
> tap-driver.sh with the appropriate command line arguments.  Duplicating
> detection inside the test driver would make sense only in the context of
> invoking it interactively.
>
This is something important for me to be aware of, as I am planing on
making changes I'll need to understand the whole system.
I'll read check.am now.

Thanks.

> Do you have a use case where we would want to invoke tap-driver.sh
> outside of the 'make check' context?
>
I just needed to know why the script and the documentation were mismatched.

> Thanks.
>
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