Re: colorful tests

2007-11-04 Thread Bob Proulx
Benoit SIGOURE wrote: > Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > >Of course the step of making color-tests the default could also be > >done some time later. (Maybe including also a no-color-tests for > >die-hards.) I would like a way to force color off. But I can't think of a good control lever for doing it.

Re: colorful tests

2007-11-04 Thread Bob Proulx
Please CC me since I don't normally read automake-patches. Thanks. Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Does anybody know how to test that colorful output actually happens? Since the colorful output of check.mk now uses 'tput' and 'tput' uses TERM, it should be sufficient to force TERM and then test the out

Re: [PATCH] Document AM_MISSING_PROG.

2007-11-04 Thread Benoit SIGOURE
On Nov 4, 2007, at 8:22 PM, Benoit Sigoure wrote: * TODO: Kill the relevant entry. * doc/automake.texi (Public macros): Document AM_MISSING_PROG. * tests/Makefile.am: Add the new test. * tests/ammissingprog.test: New. Signed-off-by: Benoit Sigoure <[EMAIL PROTECT

[PATCH] Document AM_MISSING_PROG.

2007-11-04 Thread Benoit Sigoure
* TODO: Kill the relevant entry. * doc/automake.texi (Public macros): Document AM_MISSING_PROG. * tests/Makefile.am: Add the new test. * tests/ammissingprog.test: New. Signed-off-by: Benoit Sigoure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Please drop autoconf-patches when replying.

Re: prepare Automake's test suite for parallelization

2007-11-04 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Benoit SIGOURE wrote on Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 07:44:10PM CET: > On Nov 4, 2007, at 7:07 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > >> - for XPASS tests we do the wrong thing: remove the test directory. >> This is because our suite's defs.in has no idea that we are running >> an XPASS. The keep_testdirs is

Re: prepare Automake's test suite for parallelization

2007-11-04 Thread Benoit SIGOURE
On Nov 4, 2007, at 7:07 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: I'm not entirely happy with this one yet. It does what is needed, but it has warts: - if you interrupt the test suite, you will have leftover directories, That's a minor problem, methinks. As long as a subsequent `make clean' Does The Righ

Re: colorful tests

2007-11-04 Thread Benoit SIGOURE
On Nov 4, 2007, at 7:17 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Hello Benoit, * Benoit SIGOURE wrote on Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 06:50:08PM CET: On Nov 4, 2007, at 6:41 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: I took the various bits of code from the parallel tests check.mk from Akim and tried to mangle that suitable f

Re: prepare Automake's test suite for parallelization

2007-11-04 Thread Jim Meyering
Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > FWIW2, we could use subdirectories named after the test name rather than > using the PID. However, I've found myself running the same test in > parallel sometimes: > make check TESTS=foo.test # Stop with C^Z, then run same command again > > and it cau

Re: colorful tests

2007-11-04 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Benoit, * Benoit SIGOURE wrote on Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 06:50:08PM CET: > On Nov 4, 2007, at 6:41 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: >> >> I took the various bits of code from the parallel tests check.mk from >> Akim and tried to mangle that suitable for inclusion in Automake. >> This is what I ended

prepare Automake's test suite for parallelization

2007-11-04 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
I'm not entirely happy with this one yet. It does what is needed, but it has warts: - if you interrupt the test suite, you will have leftover directories, - the check-clean stuff is supposed to be niceified in a later patch (i.e., made into a proper Automake interface). - for XPASS tests we do t

Re: colorful tests

2007-11-04 Thread Benoit SIGOURE
On Nov 4, 2007, at 6:41 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Hello colorful world, I took the various bits of code from the parallel tests check.mk from Akim and tried to mangle that suitable for inclusion in Automake. This is what I ended up with. (More topics to follow.) What do you think about it?

bash bug in Automake

2007-11-04 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
FWIW, I searched current Automake lib/am/*.am for instances of the recently found bash bug in Autoconf, concerning exit status of redirected compound commands, but found none. Cheers, Ralf

colorful tests

2007-11-04 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello colorful world, I took the various bits of code from the parallel tests check.mk from Akim and tried to mangle that suitable for inclusion in Automake. This is what I ended up with. (More topics to follow.) What do you think about it? Does anybody know how to test that colorful output actu