Re: [Bug-libmatheval] tiny texinfo patch

[Aleksandar B. Samardzic]

On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 01:30:32PM -0400, Ed Hill wrote:
> > Thanks for problems report and for your effort in packaging
> > libmatheval for Fedora.  I made some small changes in CVS, so I'd
> > appreciate if you could check it out and let me know are they OK with
> > you, so that I could release new version.  The changes are as follows:
> 
> 
> Thanks!  I'll take a look later this week or this weekend.

Incidentally, new version of Slackware is released today, so I just
installed it and it includes Guile 1.8.0; however, libmatheval is not
compiling properly using it, so there will be probably more small CVS
changes in a day or two...


> I'll take another look at your test bits since I have little
> experience writing Gnu-style test scripts and they're obviously
> useful!  Speaking of which, can you perhaps recommend a starting place
> for someone who'd like to learn more about writing tests launched
> through "make check"?  Are there any Gnu standards or typical patterns
> for these things or are they mostly ad-hoc?

There is a section on Autotest framework, employed by libmatheval, in
GNU autoconf manual ("info autoconf", then check section 18).  As for
wrapping libmatheval C API for Guile (used in turn to write tests), I
did it by hand (this is code residing in tests/matheval.c, that you
encountered is emitting various warnings to stderr).  None of these is
"obligatory" for a GNU project by any means, but personally I'm big fan
of wrapping low-level code for use by scripting languages (like Scheme,
Perl or Python) for easier testing purposes (and doing lots of other
useful stuff), and on the other side I liked Autotest simplicity, so I
gave it a run.

Regards,
Alex