Re: automake 1.11.3 check-TESTS and command line length

2012-02-22 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 02/22/2012 09:22 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Wed, 22 Feb 2012, Stefano Lattarini wrote: >>> >> I don't understand how that patch could actually work ... If there are >> too many tests in $(TESTS), there will be too many logs in $(TEST_LOGS), >> and since the recipe for $(TEST_SUITE_LOG) con

Re: automake 1.11.3 check-TESTS and command line length

2012-02-22 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Wed, 22 Feb 2012, Stefano Lattarini wrote: I don't understand how that patch could actually work ... If there are too many tests in $(TESTS), there will be too many logs in $(TEST_LOGS), and since the recipe for $(TEST_SUITE_LOG) contents the expansion of $(TEST_LOGS), the command line leng

Re: [PATCH] tests: prefer 'configure.ac' over 'configure.in'

2012-02-22 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Hi Peter. On 02/22/2012 08:31 PM, p...@lysator.liu.se wrote: >> On 02/21/2012 09:56 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: >>> With this change, our testsuite now uses 'configure.ac' as the >>> name for the typical autoconf input, instead of the obsolescent >>> 'configure.in' (which has been deprecated for

Re: automake 1.11.3 check-TESTS and command line length

2012-02-22 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 02/22/2012 03:57 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Wed, 22 Feb 2012, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > >> Hi Bob, sorry for the delay. >> >> On 02/19/2012 07:55 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: >>> I am again bit by automake not being able run the test suite on systems >>> with bounded command line length. U

Re: [PATCH] tests: prefer 'configure.ac' over 'configure.in'

2012-02-22 Thread peda
> On 02/21/2012 09:56 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: >> With this change, our testsuite now uses 'configure.ac' as the >> name for the typical autoconf input, instead of the obsolescent >> 'configure.in' (which has been deprecated for several years, at >> least since autoconf 2.50). >> >> The test ca

Re: automake 1.11.3 check-TESTS and command line length

2012-02-22 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Wed, 22 Feb 2012, Stefano Lattarini wrote: Hi Bob, sorry for the delay. On 02/19/2012 07:55 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: I am again bit by automake not being able run the test suite on systems with bounded command line length. Up to automake 1.11.2 I was able to apply a patch by Ralf Wildenh

[FYI] {master} spy: "rm -f" and "rm -rf" without args are portable

2012-02-22 Thread Stefano Lattarini
According to recent testing by Eric Blake, it seems that all non-museum rm(1) implementations don't complain if called without file operands, *if* the '-f' option is used. This behaviour will likely be mandated by future versions of the POSIX standard as well. We'd like to start assuming this rm(

[FYI] {master} tests: avoid spurious failures under "make distcheck"

2012-02-22 Thread Stefano Lattarini
* tests/tap-setup.sh: Pass also '-f' option to 'cp' invocations, so that files that have already been copied in without write permissions will still be overwritten where needed, instead of causing a spurious testsuite failure. Issue seen when the testsuite is run under "distcheck". * tests/defs (g

[FYI] {master} fixup: avoid spurious failure for 'parallel-tests-many.test'

2012-02-22 Thread Stefano Lattarini
* tests/parallel-tests-many.test: Adjust grepping of "make check" and "make recheck" output to match the new format of the testsuite summary. Remove redundant 'set -e' call since we are at it. --- tests/parallel-tests-many.test |8 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) di

Re: automake 1.11.3 check-TESTS and command line length

2012-02-22 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Hi Bob, sorry for the delay. On 02/19/2012 07:55 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > I am again bit by automake not being able run the test suite on systems > with bounded command line length. Up to automake 1.11.2 I was able to > apply a patch by Ralf Wildenhues. > Which patch are you referring to exac

Re: [PATCH] tests: prefer 'configure.ac' over 'configure.in'

2012-02-22 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 02/21/2012 09:56 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > With this change, our testsuite now uses 'configure.ac' as the > name for the typical autoconf input, instead of the obsolescent > 'configure.in' (which has been deprecated for several years, at > least since autoconf 2.50). > > The test cases cha