Re: AT_CHECK within for loop

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 08:37:26PM CET:
> * Joel E. Denny wrote on Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 08:31:05PM CET:
> >   tmp.at:4: error: AT_CHECK: missing AT_SETUP detected
> 
> Ah, I think it doesn't work to expand AT_CHECK inside a function.

Wrong again: I think it currently doesn't work to use AT_CHECK outside
or AT_SETUP/AT_CLEANUP pairs.

Sorry for the noise.  The rest should still hold.

> Sorry for overlooking that requirement of yours.
> 
> It might be possible to rework _AT_CHECK so that it will work in
> such a setup, should mostly be a matter of assigning some values
> that are currently held in m4 macros only to shell variables in
> AT_SETUP, and then referencing them in _AT_CHECK.  This would
> probably enlarge testsuite code a bit, but maybe negligible.