Hello automakers. Recently, I've looked again into the `instspc*.test' tests (for more info: <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2011-02/msg00036.html>). While doing so, I've come to realize that we don't really need to generate tons and tons of wrapper test scripts (presently, ~ 90) just to run what is basically a single test (specifically, `instspc-tests.sh') with different parameters. In fact, the possibility of running a single driver script with multiple files/configurations/parameters is one of the major selling points of the 'parallel-tests' testsuite driver of automake. So why not use ourselves more extensively the best features we provide?
I'll soon post a two-patches series implementing this idea (note that the first one is just a preparatory patch that makes sense only in view of the second one). The patches has been tested with in-tree and VPATH builds, with various shells (pdksh, mksh, older bash and ash versions, Solaris 10 /bin/sh and /bin/ksh) and various make implementations (Debian ports of FreeBSD and NetBSD make, GNU make versions from 3.79 to 3.82, Heirloom make, and Solaris 10 dmake, CCS make and XPG4 make). Regards, Stefano
