Re: AT_TESTED

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Noah Misch wrote on Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 12:01:53PM CET:
> On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 09:30:57AM +0100, Roger While wrote:
> > Why does this macro force the user to support
> > long options ?
> > Can't we use "-V" or alternatively provide an
> > "AT_VTESTED" macro ?
> > Or even make it overridable
> > (eg. Over environment AT_USER_VOPT)

> One test suite may test several programs with different option
> conventions, so the solution is probably a long form of AT_TESTED in
> which the suite author specifies how to invoke the particular program.

There should be a variant that works per-test (or allows to (un)select
test groups based on program presence).  Not being fatal would be very
helpful.

> Nobody has contributed such functionality at this time.

Free time..

Cheers,
Ralf