I would like to add an option to runtest for changing directory very
early (actually in the shell launcher; Tcl would ignore it) as part of
fixing the current Automake misintegration. This option would be
analogous to the "-C" option to GNU make. Unfortunately, GNU make uses
"--directory" as the corresponding long option and that is already used
for a different purpose in DejaGnu.
This is a problem because the recursive runtest runs in the DejaGnu
testsuite need to use a different site.exp from the outer runtest.
I have a few options:
(1) Use a different long option name, perhaps "--base-directory".
(2) Add a shell script shim for the testsuite to use that changes
directory and invokes "runtest".
(3) Allow overriding the configfile name (default "site.exp") via
command-line option.
I prefer option (1), since the functionality is strongly analogous to
GNU make: both programs examine hard-coded files relative to the
directory in which they start.
-- Jacob
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