Re: testsuite -C dir

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Eric,

* Eric Blake-1 wrote on Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 01:11:23AM CET:
> 
> But, since I'm feeling nice, I'm committing the following,
> which should let libtool work once again without
> reordering its current usage.

Thank you!  :-)

> > This fails with Autoconf mainline now (after the recent patches) because
> > $LIBTOOL is not set yet; it is set in the call from the Makefile with
> >   ./testsuite LIBTOOL=...
> 
> That seems rather brittle.  It means that you can't invoke
> libtool's testsuite without supplying a definition for LIBTOOL.

ATM, with Libtool you really need to
  make check-local TESTSUITEFLAGS=...

because several values are passed.  We might change that in the future
at some point, but I don't want to change anything now.

> But at least that's not autoconf's problem.

True.

> Almost all of the other diversions documented in the
> leading comments of autotest/general.m4 have readily
> identifiable and documented macros to generate text
> for those diversions.

Which is of course even better, as it's a nicer interface.

Thanks again,
Ralf