Hello Akim, * Akim Demaille wrote on Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 09:18:06PM CEST: > Le 20 mars 09 à 00:24, Ralf Wildenhues a écrit : > >> Retaining the "TESTS=foo*.test" thing without GNU make-specific >> measures is tricky. It requires to shell-expand $(TESTS), before we >> even start using either of $(TESTS) or $(TEST_LOGS). IIUC that means >> we have to introduce yet another restart of 'make'. :-/ >> Do you see another way? > > Actually I'm not even sure this is the right approach: after all there > is nothing that requires the contents of TESTS to be actual files, is > there?
Well, not in principle at least. But the current rules to generate the log files assumes it. It even assumes they are not symlinks. > Maybe they are just .PHONY and just the name is the test, or the > files are generated, in which case globbing will not work. Again, this is TODO work. > Maybe it should not be file globbing, but some kind of filtering (maybe > case/esac-based) on the whole list of available TESTS. I like to be able > to run "make check TESTS='*foo*'" and have all the tests that have "foo" > in it, whatever the directory it's in. File-based globbing won't do. > > But I agree I see no means to avoid another invocation of make :( The problem is that adding recursion is no panacea. The ugly non-portable variable override rears its head there. I'm leaving it out of 1.11b, and instead listing a couple of examples to do the globbing in shell. You could easily define a custom target to do similar as set x generated-tests*.test; shift cd $srcdir && set x "$@" source-tests*.test && shift && cd - make check TESTS="$*" Cheers, Ralf
