Hello automakers.
This patch series is an amendment of my previously posted series on the
same issue -- see:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2009-12/msg00026.html
Since all the patches posted previously have been amended, I've decided
to re-propose the series in this fresh thread.
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While exploring and editing the automake testsuite, I came across
three test scripts (acoutbs2.test, badopt.test, extra2.test) which
were not listed in the $(TESTS) variable, and thus were never run.
In my opinion, this is a quite bad oversight. In fact, one of the
tests (acoutbs2.test) consistently failed (luckily, as I soon found
out, this failure was due to a bug in the test script, not in
automake).
I'm going to to submit a set of six simple patches regarding the
described problems.
The first two patches correct the oversight in the definition of
$(TESTS), and implement a new maintainer-check to make it sure that no
similar oversight will occur again in future.
The next two patches correct the spurious failure in `acoutbs2.test', and
(to play safe) also extend the tests `acoutbs.test' and `acoutbs2.test' a
bit.
The last two patches consist just of refactoring, and are aimed at
removing some code duplication which creeped in with the previous
patches (with the first patch, in fact).
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I will soon post the new patche series.
Regards,
Stefano
