Re: colorful tests

[Benoit Sigoure]

On Nov 5, 2007, at 1:13 AM, Bob Proulx wrote:

> Benoit SIGOURE wrote:
> > Now I think that the no-color-tests could be useful for those out
> > there that are allergic to fancy colors and stuff, so I think it'll
> > be worth implementing it (which is easy).
>
> I am not quite alergic to it but put me in the black and white camp in
> general.  For example when capturing output with 'script' all of those
> escape sequences get in the way.

If you do this, it will DWYM unless you have a broken implementation  
of `test -t' (which should be reported so we can mention it in the  
"limitation of builtins" section of the Autoconf manual).

> > We could use another variable, say, NOCOLOR, and people would do
> > `make check NOCOLOR=whatever'.  We simply need to throw a test
> > x$(NOCOLOR) = x in the `&&' pipeline that decides whether colors
> > must be used or not.
>
> Something more namespace safe than NOCOLOR though.  I think it would
> need to be more specific such as AUTOMAKE_NOCOLOR=yes or some such.

Yes obviously.  AM_NOCOLOR would be easier to type though ;)

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Benoit Sigoure aka Tsuna
EPITA Research and Development Laboratory

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