Re: AT_TESTED and (non)fatal errors

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Noah,

* Noah Misch wrote on Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 03:40:27AM CET:
> On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 03:30:39PM +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > 
> > Right now, the testsuite fails when it there is at least one program
> > missing which is necessary for one test, even if all I want is to run
> > some other test which does not need the program.  Ideally, I would like
> > something like SKIP if the program is not available, and AT_TESTED to
> > allow to work more test-local.
> 
> That sounds appropriate.  Do you have an implementation in mind?

No, have not thought about that yet.

> If not, I'll make a note to work something up.

Great.

*snip*
> > What is the best way around this, short of creating stub commands in
> > $PATH somewhere (which I don't think I can force users to do)?
> > Or should we just ditch AT_TESTED and write our own little macro?
> 
> There is no good way to continue using AT_TESTED with a scheme like this;
> arguments to AT_TESTED are single-quoted in `testsuite', so variable arguments
> do not work.  I will fix that, but I suggest avoiding AT_TESTED for now.

That's what I was afraid of.

Thanks for your response.  I will work up a patch (to libtool-patches
only) to this extent.

Regards,
Ralf