Re: README/NEWS

[Alexandre Duret-Lutz]

On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 10:54:15PM +0900, Peter O'Gorman wrote:
>
> To run a test group in isolation (say, you think you have fixed a bug,
> but don't want to rerun the entire suite), you can do it like this:
>
>   make check TESTS='cdemo-static.test cdemo-make.test cdemo-exec.test'

This assumes GNU make.

> From a bourne
> compatible shell, you can generate verbose test output like this:
>
>   VERBOSE=yes make check \
>   TESTS='cdemo-static.test cdemo-make.test cdemo-exec.test' \
>   | tee cdemo-static-group.log

Prepend `env' so it works from any shell?

(FWIW, the wordings in Automake's tests/README is

Getting details from failures
-----------------------------

  Each test is a script.  In a non-VPATH build you can run them
  directly, they will be verbose.

  Otherwise, you can invoke make as follows, just replace the list
  of tests by those you want to check.

    env VERBOSE=x TESTS='first.test second.test ...' make -e check
)

> 3)  Due to a bug in autoconf cc isn't supported on Motorola System V 4.
> You can only use gcc. This bug will hopefully be fixed in autoconf 2.14.

Wow!  Maybe this should be updated?  Mentioning Autoconf 2.14 is confusing.

> 5)  Libtool has only been tested with the Siemens C-compiler and
> an old version of gcc provided by Marco Walther you can find on
> ftp://ftp.mch.sni.de/sni/mr/pd/gnu/gcc/gcc.2.7.2.3 on Reliant Unix.

It would help to start the sentence with "On Reliant Unix...".

> 6)  libtool.m4, ltdl.m4 and the configure.ac files are marked to use
> autoconf-mode, which is distributed with GNU Emacs 21, and all recent
> releases of XEmacs.

And by Autoconf itself.