Re: AT_TESTED and (non)fatal errors

[Noah Misch]

On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 03:30:39PM +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> I would like to run the Autotest testsuite of Libtool HEAD on systems
> which do not have all AT_TESTED() programs available, or possibly under
> a different name.
> 
> 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?  If not, I'll
make a note to work something up.

> Furthermore, I would like the names to be overridable, as in
>   AUTORECONF=autoreconf259

I suggest `: ${AUTORECONF=autoreconf}' at the beginning of each test group that
uses autoreconf.  Use `$AUTORECONF' wherever you formerly used `autoreconf'.  A
user can then `./testsuite AUTORECONF=foo' to override the default.

> 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.