Re: autotest

[Allan Clark]

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 1:20 PM, Rikki Duncan <address@hidden> wrote:

>
> [...]
> Is there a way to make your testsuite automatically find the executable you
> are trying to run without putting the path directly in .at?  Also is
> there a way to make autotest find the program you just built without doing
> a make install before a make check? Or
> do you have to do a make install before the make check no matter what?
> [...]


I do that using an testsuite.at.in that generates a testsuite.at from
autoconf (my nagios-ldap work, for example):

configure.in:
...
AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR([tests-autotest])
...
AC_SUBST(NAGIOS)
...
AC_OUTPUT(Makefile
  ...
  tests-autotest/Makefile tests-autotest/atlocal tests-autotest/testsuite.at
)


tests-autotest/testsuite.at.in:
...
AT_CHECK(address@hidden@ --version], 0, [ignore],[ignore])
...

In a similar fashion, you might use your ${abs_builddir} to refer to
${abs_builddir}/src/<something> by including a generated atlocal (which is
empty in my current iteration).

Allan
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