Re: Large number of tests when shell has limited argument list space

[Albert Chin]

On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 03:24:14PM -0600, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Albert Chin wrote:
> >
> >I don't know if this is easy, but check-TESTS could be modified to
> >iterate over more than one $(TESTS) variable:
> > check-TESTS: $(TESTS1) $(TESTS2) $(TESTS3) ...
> 
> There are likely Makefile.am files which are using the value of TESTS 
> for other purposes.  The value of TESTS needs to be preserved. 
> Anyone who uses TESTS for scripting would then be on their own.

Well, we could have:
  TESTS = $(TESTS1) $(TESTS2) ...

But, for the purposes of a shell loop, we'd use $(TESTn).

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albert chin (address@hidden)