Reference: <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2011-02/msg00044.html>
On Wednesday 16 February 2011, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > 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 > Ping on this? I'll push in 72 hours if there's no review by then. Regards, Stefano
