Re: TAP support in automake (was: Re: automake 1.11.3 check-TESTS and command line length)

2012-03-31 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sat, 31 Mar 2012, Stefano Lattarini wrote: Well, automake being automake, it only depends on portable awk[1] ;-) OK, portable "nawk" actually (as found by the autoconf builtin macro AC_PROG_AWK), but I don't know of any non-museum machine lacking that. Good. The new feature is already do

Re: automake 1.11.3 check-TESTS and command line length

2012-03-31 Thread Tim Landscheidt
Bob Friesenhahn wrote: >> Are you referring to the GraphicsMagick testsuite? If yes, it seems to me >> that it could benefit greatly from the use of TAP once automake 1.12 is out; >> for example, all the 314 'tests/rwfile*.sh' tests could be rewritten as one >> single TAP test (and similarly for

TAP support in automake (was: Re: automake 1.11.3 check-TESTS and command line length)

2012-03-31 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Hi Bob. On 03/31/2012 07:15 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Wed, 22 Feb 2012, Stefano Lattarini wrote: >>> >> Are you referring to the GraphicsMagick testsuite? If yes, it seems to me >> that it could benefit greatly from the use of TAP once automake 1.12 is out; >> for example, all the 314 'test

Re: automake 1.11.3 check-TESTS and command line length

2012-03-31 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Wed, 22 Feb 2012, Stefano Lattarini wrote: Are you referring to the GraphicsMagick testsuite? If yes, it seems to me that it could benefit greatly from the use of TAP once automake 1.12 is out; for example, all the 314 'tests/rwfile*.sh' tests could be rewritten as one single TAP test (and

Re: automake 1.11.3 check-TESTS and command line length

2012-03-31 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

Re: automake 1.11.3 check-TESTS and command line length

2012-02-27 Thread Eric Blake
On 02/27/2012 12:52 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > [re-adding the relevant automake bug in CC] > > Hi Peter, thanks for chiming in. > > On 02/27/2012 12:15 PM, Peter Rosin wrote: >> >> I *think* the environment and the command line shares space (approx 64kB, I can confirm this, based on my testi

Re: automake 1.11.3 check-TESTS and command line length

2012-02-27 Thread Stefano Lattarini
[re-adding the relevant automake bug in CC] Hi Peter, thanks for chiming in. On 02/27/2012 12:15 PM, Peter Rosin wrote: > > I *think* the environment and the command line shares space (approx 64kB, > I repeat *think* here, I don't know the details off the top of my head, Cygwin > isn't affected s

Re: automake 1.11.3 check-TESTS and command line length

2012-02-27 Thread Peter Rosin
Stefano Lattarini skrev 2012-02-22 21:54: > 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), >

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: 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: 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

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