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21. Re: distcheck fails with autotest: autom4te: cannot open ../../tests/testsuite.tmp: Permission denied (score: 37)

Author: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>

Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 18:49:33 +0100

* Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 05:08:32PM CET: Oh. Current Autoconf code has that. I didn't notice (but I see you also did now): 2007-10-28 Jim Meyering <address@hidden> [...] Yuck,

/archive/html/autoconf/2007-11/msg00007.html (10,508 bytes)

22. Re: distcheck fails with autotest: autom4te: cannot open ../../tests/testsuite.tmp: Permission denied (score: 37)

Author: Benoit SIGOURE <tsuna@lrde.epita.fr>

Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 18:31:55 +0100

Hello Benoit, * Benoit SIGOURE wrote on Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 03:07:23AM CET: Anyways, I must have b0rken something at some point, because now when I `make distcheck', I get: make[3]: Entering direct

/archive/html/autoconf/2007-11/msg00006.html (9,762 bytes)

23. Re: Autotest: using $abs_srcdir with m4_include (score: 37)

Author: "Nathaniel D. Sizemore" <sizemore@txcorp.com>

Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 11:18:40 -0600

m4_include([$abs_srcdir/type1/testsuite.at]) That won't work: m4_include is a macro which requires M4 literals, as they will be used at the time m4 is run. Since you're likely to create the testsuite

/archive/html/autoconf/2006-05/msg00004.html (6,619 bytes)

24. Re: Generating Test Suites with Autotest (score: 37)

Author: Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>

Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 14:43:20 +0200

Hello, ... actually, there is a connected question: why should one use Autotest for automated testing? Even though I like m4 and Autoconf internals, Autotest still scares me. The simple *.test files

/archive/html/autoconf/2005-06/msg00113.html (6,140 bytes)

25. Re: Autotest: loops of tests (score: 37)

Author: Noah Misch <noah@cs.caltech.edu>

Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 18:47:45 -0800

I understand. Current Autotest does not provide a clean way to avoid that bloat. That is a problem worth addressing; the damage to non-Autoconf users of Autotest is particularly bad since you distrib

/archive/html/autoconf/2005-03/msg00117.html (6,637 bytes)

26. Re: Autotest usage outside the Autoconf (score: 37)

Author: Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>

Date: 24 Sep 2001 14:13:06 +0200

Yes it is, and it is currently my main focus in the Autoconf development. Please, be sure to use *CVS* Autoconf to use Autotest. The documentation is weak, very weak, but I'm currently writing some

/archive/html/autoconf/2001-09/msg00077.html (6,810 bytes)

27. Autotest usage outside the Autoconf (score: 37)

Author: Alexey Mahotkin <alexm@hsys.msk.ru>

Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 02:53:14 +0400 (MSD)

Hello, I am trying to rewrite the CVS insanity.sh using the Autotest infrastructure. Everything goes slightly fine, and/but I have several questions (quick search in list archives showed nothing from

/archive/html/autoconf/2001-09/msg00074.html (6,098 bytes)

28. Re: autotest/AT_CHECK: ways to pass additional options on to diff? (score: 36)

Author: Luke Mewburn <lukem@NetBSD.org>

Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2019 15:56:01 +1000

files I used another solution where wanted to use a different diff implementation for AT_CHECK() that that allowed for regexes to be used in places where the output changes each test run. See my "pyr

/archive/html/autoconf/2019-06/msg00000.html (6,812 bytes)

29. RE: autotest/AT_CHECK: ways to pass additional options on to diff? (score: 36)

Author: "Jannick" <thirdedition@gmx.net>

Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2019 22:16:45 +0200

Hi Nick, First of all many thanks for your swift reply and apologies for me replying late. I took my Easter break and a bit more to have a pretty loooong journey through the autoconf lands which was

/archive/html/autoconf/2019-04/msg00008.html (7,656 bytes)

30. autotest/AT_CHECK: ways to pass additional options on to diff? (score: 36)

Author: "Jannick" <thirdedition@gmx.net>

Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 19:55:43 +0200

Hi everybody, I am wondering if there is an elegant way to pass additional diff options on to AT_CHECK in a testsuite - ideally on the level of .ac, .am, .at files or alike? In autotest/general.m4, t

/archive/html/autoconf/2019-04/msg00005.html (4,884 bytes)

31. Re: unable to escape ! in autotest stdout comparison text (score: 36)

Author: John Calcote <john.calcote@gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 29 May 2018 21:19:43 -0600

... harder to explain. All I know for sure is that the output in testsuite.log showed an empty string for the comparison text when I don't use a newline after the bang. On the other hand, when I do u

/archive/html/autoconf/2018-05/msg00006.html (6,798 bytes)

32. Re: Background processes in GNU Autotest (score: 36)

Author: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>

Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 15:12:37 -0400

wouldn't you want the test itself to spin up/down the server as need be ? that way you can write multiple end-to-end tests and have them all run in parallel. i'm guessing your method described above

/archive/html/autoconf/2016-06/msg00015.html (6,761 bytes)

33. Background processes in GNU Autotest (score: 36)

Author: Olaf Mandel <olaf@mandel.name>

Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 11:03:01 +0200

Hello, I am trying to use GNU Autotest (via AX_GNU_AUTOTEST()) to run end-to-end tests on a network server. My current test script looks somewhat like this: AT_CHECK([server&], , [ignore]) AT_CHECK([

/archive/html/autoconf/2016-06/msg00014.html (6,176 bytes)

34. autotest AT_CHECK variant with pattern awareness (score: 36)

Author: Luke Mewburn <lukem@NetBSD.org>

Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 00:29:31 +1100

Hi folks, Summary: I propose a new macro (currently named AX_AT_CHECK_PATTERN()) which is like AT_CHECK() except that the expected stdout and stderr arguments may contain awk regular expressions, to

/archive/html/autoconf/2013-12/msg00008.html (7,949 bytes)

35. Re: Best practice sharing autotest macros (score: 36)

Author: Luke Mewburn <lukem@NetBSD.org>

Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2013 19:24:59 +1100

What I've found works so far is: 1. Install the .m4 files containing my autotest macros into a common location (e.g /usr/local/share/aclocal). 2. In tests/local.at, explicitly m4_include([...]) my ma

/archive/html/autoconf/2013-12/msg00007.html (5,933 bytes)

36. Re: How To Write An Autotest Script (score: 36)

Author: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>

Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 16:46:48 -0400

have you seen the manual ? http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/html_node/Using-Autotest.html#Using-Autotest -mike Attachment: signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message par

/archive/html/autoconf/2011-11/msg00002.html (5,229 bytes)

37. How To Write An Autotest Script (score: 36)

Author: Candy Brady <bradycandy@rocketmail.com>

Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 11:34:55 -0700 (PDT)

Hello,   Does anyone know of any useful tutorials on how to write an autotest script to test a c file in a package?   I can an only find one document on autotest, and it does not explain how you ca

/archive/html/autoconf/2011-11/msg00001.html (4,321 bytes)

38. Re: autotest: problem testing daemons, with possible fix (score: 36)

Author: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>

Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 10:28:45 +0100

Hello, * Paul Eggert wrote on Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 07:47:08PM CET: Looks good to me too. Is it possible to devise an easy test case in shell? Asking because esp. the parallel Autotest code fiddles a

/archive/html/autoconf/2010-11/msg00043.html (6,839 bytes)

39. using atlocal variables in autotest macros (score: 36)

Author: John Wohlbier <johnwohlbier@gmail.com>

Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:03:00 -0700

For the life of me I can't figure out how to use variables I've set in atlocal.in in my macros defined in my *.at files. I think it must be due to my lack of understanding of the m4 language, and may

/archive/html/autoconf/2009-02/msg00081.html (7,192 bytes)

40. Re: AT_line undefined when trying to use autotest (score: 36)

Author: "Christopher Hulbert" <cchgroupmail@gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:49:32 -0500

Thanks. I can't believe I missed that! Chris

/archive/html/autoconf/2008-02/msg00069.html (7,985 bytes)

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