Re: [bug-gnulib] Re: gnulib-tool --with-tests --test

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Bruno,

* Bruno Haible wrote on Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 08:05:41PM CET:
> Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > The patch below should some of the reported issues.  OK to apply?
> 
> Thanks for this patch. Everything except the first hunk (gl_source_base)
> is fine. Please apply.

Thanks.  I noted that my patch broke
  gnulib-tool --test

so to fix that I wrapped running of the autotools in gltests/ in an
  if test -n "$inctests"; then
    #...
  fi

and applied.

> About the gl_source_base of the tests directory: The idea is that
> the tests directory has its sources separate from the main directory,
> so that when a dependency (providing a .h file, for example) is missing
> from a library module but present in the tests module, we still an
> error while compiling the library. Otherwise testing with --with-tests
> might fail to uncover dependency bugs that --without-tests would uncover;
> this is obviously undesirable. - Can you find another fix for the problem?

FWIW, I don't understand this.  The gltests/ subdirectory already shares
as much as possible with the parent configury: gltests/configure.ac has
| AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([../build-aux])

and gltests/Makefile.am has
| ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = -I ../glm4

and the *only* location in the gltests/configure script where
$gl_source_base is needed is for finding the getloadavg.c file,
which quite obviously exists in ../gllib.  I mean, all the $x-tests
modules depend upon the module $x anyway, so what are you trying to
catch here?

> > FWIW, I still don't understand the necessity of a separate configure
> > script in the gltests/ subdirectory at all.  Is that just for testing
> > purposes?
> 
> Like above: If the tests module requires an m4 macro invocation that the
> library module would also need but lacks, --with-tests would not uncover
> the bug.

I don't buy that either.  The macro directory is shared, there is
nothing to win here.  Note this is the func_create_tests I'm changing,
not the megatest part.

I still maintain that the patch below is needed.  For reproducing the
issue, it is sufficient to run
$ gnulib-tool --with-tests --test getloadavg
[...]
| checking for error_at_line... yes
| configure: error: ./gltests/getloadavg.c is missing
| configure: error: ./configure failed for gltests

Cheers,
Ralf

        * gnulib-tool (func_create_testdir): Fix gl_source_base setting.

Index: gnulib-tool
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/gnulib/gnulib/gnulib-tool,v
retrieving revision 1.189
diff -u -r1.189 gnulib-tool
--- gnulib-tool 12 Nov 2006 09:53:16 -0000      1.189
+++ gnulib-tool 12 Nov 2006 09:55:57 -0000
@@ -2284,7 +2284,7 @@
        echo "gl_libdeps="
        echo "gl_ltlibdeps="
      fi
-     echo "gl_source_base='$testsbase'"
+     echo "gl_source_base='../$sourcebase'"
      # Wrap the set of autoconf snippets into an autoconf macro that is then
      # invoked. This is needed because autoconf does not support AC_REQUIRE
      # at the top level: