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81. RE: autotest/AT_CHECK: ways to pass additional options on to diff? (score: 34)

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

Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2019 19:05:19 +0200

Hi Luke, Sorry for the late reply. Would the approach by redefining diff in the shell environment I suggested in https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2019-06/msg00002.html be something to avoi

/archive/html/autoconf/2019-06/msg00003.html (5,577 bytes)

82. RE: autotest/AT_CHECK: ways to pass additional options on to diff? (score: 34)

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

Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2019 23:37:47 +0200

Agree - currently the customized diff script should make it possible for me to run the checks without stopping because of some nasty EOL difference. So no need to validate if the diff flags are avail

/archive/html/autoconf/2019-04/msg00010.html (6,736 bytes)

83. Re: autotest/AT_CHECK: ways to pass additional options on to diff? (score: 34)

Author: Nick Bowler <nbowler@draconx.ca>

Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2019 17:10:11 -0400

Yes, that sounds workable. You can fairly easily generate such a wrapper script in configure, too, if for portability you need to test whether diff supports some particular option. I would have one c

/archive/html/autoconf/2019-04/msg00009.html (5,918 bytes)

84. Re: unable to escape ! in autotest stdout comparison text (score: 34)

Author: Nick Bowler <nbowler@draconx.ca>

Date: Tue, 29 May 2018 21:34:32 -0400

[snip problems with unwanted shell expansion] There might be ways to avoid your problems with AC_CHECK_UNQUOTED, but it is probably simplest to just sidestep the issue. In your test group, you can wr

/archive/html/autoconf/2018-05/msg00003.html (6,458 bytes)

85. unable to escape ! in autotest stdout comparison text (score: 34)

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

Date: Tue, 29 May 2018 19:25:56 -0600

I'm trying to create a test using autotest that compares the stdout of my program with a string. Unfortunately, the output of the program contains the path of the program. As part of its output, it w

/archive/html/autoconf/2018-05/msg00002.html (6,116 bytes)

86. Re: Background processes in GNU Autotest (score: 34)

Author: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>

Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 01:19:55 -0400

probing for an open port would be one way to handle it. if you can conditionally rely on Linux namespace features, you could create a new network namespace for each test which would give you a comple

/archive/html/autoconf/2016-06/msg00017.html (7,934 bytes)

87. Re: Background processes in GNU Autotest (score: 34)

Author: Olaf Mandel <olaf@mandel.name>

Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 22:52:48 +0200

Hello Mike, -Snipp -Snipp You mean my "client" program starting the server itself? Didn't think of that... it would solve the cleanup question during testing. I see that valgrind provides the --trace

/archive/html/autoconf/2016-06/msg00016.html (6,772 bytes)

88. Re: meaning autotest exit code 13 (score: 34)

Author: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>

Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2013 15:47:28 -0700

This is a usage error. This line says to execute 'hello', and expect $? (which will always be numeric) to contain the string 'Hello, world'. Perhaps we can enhance the AT_CHECK macro to sanity check

/archive/html/autoconf/2013-03/msg00007.html (6,959 bytes)

89. Re: autotest: problem testing daemons, with possible fix (score: 34)

Author: "Andrew W. Nosenko" <andrew.w.nosenko@gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 22:36:23 +0200

Excuse me, but why you didn't close all FDs inside your daemon before daemonizing at all? Properly written daemon shoud to do it anyway for preventing opened FDs to be "leaked" forever (ok, not forev

/archive/html/autoconf/2010-11/msg00038.html (6,435 bytes)

90. Re: autotest and make distcheck (score: 34)

Author: Andrei Kholodnyi <andrei.kholodnyi@gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 00:04:42 +0200

Thanks, I'll drop a look into it. I'd definitely need some help, since I have started recently but before I'd like to invest some time getting a better feeling about autotest. Well, but then I need

/archive/html/autoconf/2010-09/msg00042.html (6,316 bytes)

91. Re: autotest and make distcheck (score: 34)

Author: Andrei Kholodnyi <andrei.kholodnyi@gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2010 19:09:58 +0200

I see your point here, of cause it makes sense. However how it will work e.g. in a case of cross-compile? I can do build/install/uninstall it on my host but testsuite will always fail since it is for

/archive/html/autoconf/2010-09/msg00040.html (7,580 bytes)

92. Re: autotest and make distcheck (score: 34)

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

Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2010 18:19:02 +0200

Hello Andrei, * Andrei Kholodnyi wrote on Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 06:01:01PM CEST: Well, distcheck (which comes from Automake) really aims to be a "come on, let me ensure this package is good in all kin

/archive/html/autoconf/2010-09/msg00039.html (6,519 bytes)

93. Re: autotest and make distcheck (score: 34)

Author: "Andrew W. Nosenko" <andrew.w.nosenko@gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2010 18:09:27 +0300

Running testsuite at the "make distcheck" is not a problem but intended goal. If you want just build tarball but don't want to run a tests for some reason, then use "make dist" instead (pay attention

/archive/html/autoconf/2010-09/msg00037.html (5,962 bytes)

94. autotest and make distcheck (score: 34)

Author: Andrei Kholodnyi <andrei.kholodnyi@gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2010 00:22:08 +0200

I have integrated autotest in my project as described here: http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf.html#Using-Autotest. However I have following problem now. If I do "make distcheck" it

/archive/html/autoconf/2010-09/msg00036.html (5,272 bytes)

95. autotest: Temporarily starting daemons (score: 34)

Author: "imfeldma@gmail.com" <imfeldma@gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2009 19:00:12 +0200

Hi, I'm trying to temporarily fork off a daemon (BIND's named) within a testsuite. Yet the testsuite hangs despite having started the daemon. Below is an excerpt of the circumstances. Running testsui

/archive/html/autoconf/2009-08/msg00002.html (6,360 bytes)

96. autotest: error: m4_divert_pop(TEST_SCRIPT): diversion mismatch (score: 34)

Author: Braden McDaniel <braden@endoframe.com>

Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 22:31:48 -0400

I'm seeing an error processing a testsuite.at that was working at some point; that point was probably a few autoconf releases ago. But I don't see anything wrong with what I'm doing and I don't under

/archive/html/autoconf/2009-04/msg00072.html (5,652 bytes)

97. Re: using input files in autotest (score: 34)

Author: John Wohlbier <johnwohlbier@gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 14:17:23 -0700

Nevermind, I think I solved my own problem. In my macros I'll define a variable INPUTFILES that can be set on the ./testsuite command line, and if it's nonempty I'll do a cp "$at_dir/$INPUTFILE" "`pw

/archive/html/autoconf/2009-03/msg00047.html (5,244 bytes)

98. using input files in autotest (score: 34)

Author: John Wohlbier <johnwohlbier@gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 13:55:57 -0700

I'm in the process of switching our build system over to using autotest. We have several tests that use input files that we keep in their test directory. When testsuite runs it apparently creates sub

/archive/html/autoconf/2009-03/msg00045.html (4,579 bytes)

99. Re: using atlocal variables in autotest macros (score: 34)

Author: John Wohlbier <johnwohlbier@gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 09:13:17 -0700

Ah ha! Thanks very much. That's what I've been looking for for over a week! I got the basic functionality to work with the following. m4_define([AT_MPIRUN_PROGRAM], [AT_BANNER([executing mpirun -n $2

/archive/html/autoconf/2009-03/msg00020.html (8,345 bytes)

100. Re: using atlocal variables in autotest macros (score: 34)

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

Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 08:13:20 +0100

* John Wohlbier wrote on Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 04:51:27AM CET: Ah, another specialty of Autotest. Shell code not enclosed in AT_SETUP/ AT_CLEANUP is pretty much dropped on the floor. I.e., the banners

/archive/html/autoconf/2009-03/msg00016.html (6,486 bytes)

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