Re: Bison 2.3

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello,

On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 10:30:50AM +0200, Akim Demaille wrote:
> I would like to emphasize that having a single file was a goal: I
> meant the test suite to be easy to copy, to install, etc.  [...]

but is there a market for it?  AFAIK, people use ``make check'' to
test the just built program.  Does anyone try to move the autotest
generated script somewhere else?

If I copy Autoconf's tests/testsuite to a new directory and run it
there, I get:

## ------------------------------ ##
## GNU Autoconf 2.59d test suite. ##
## ------------------------------ ##

Executables (autoheader, autoupdate...).

  1: Syntax of the shell scripts                   skipped (tools.at:49)
  2: Syntax of the Perl scripts                    FAILED (tools.at:74)
  3: autom4te cache                                ok
  ...

Not very encouraging.  Perhaps no one has tried this before.
What is atconfig good for, shouldn't it be moved together with
testsuite?

> I never had time to do it.  Maybe, if the idea looks sound, someone
> will... :)

... and the other way round: if we don't see any advantage in having
the test script as a single file, we won't caare.  ;-)

Actually, the atconfig file seems to indicate that your concept has
been silently broken long ago...

Have a nice day,
        Stepan Kasal