Re: [PATCH] Test-suite update

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Kevin Ryde <address@hidden> writes:

> Did you try it (ie. ./check-guile)?  I believe it uses
> ./pre-inst-guile, and that script sets the paths correctly to run
> uninstalled.

This is true, I was wrong.  ;-)

> Yep.  I've done that for my charting package, you can set
> TESTS_ENVIRONMENT to "guile -s" or whatever for setups and so the test
> files don't have to be executables.  It's automake-friendly, but you
> miss out on the aggregated success/fail counts that the current setup
> gives.

Right, but we do not care much about the aggregated counts, do we?
Especially since there are only two test subdirectories.  And I believe
that reducing the complexity of the test scripts and leaving only those
scripts that are useful would be beneficial.

Thanks,
Ludovic.