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Re: 21-fyi-installcheck-works.patch
From: |
Akim Demaille |
Subject: |
Re: 21-fyi-installcheck-works.patch |
Date: |
28 Aug 2001 11:22:53 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.4 (Artificial Intelligence) |
| > I'm very tempted to release Autotest now (well, understand
| > `beta-release Autoconf'), but there remains one ugly thing: you have
| > to tell autom4te where are the library files, because up to now it has
| > no index of them.
| >
| > AFAICS, this is the one and only remaining task.
|
| The only hing that I stiill dislike with AutoTest is that it doesn't
| pretty print the test names as it executes them. I'd really like to
| see it do something like this:
|
| ==========================
| Test suite for GNU m4 1.4q
| ==========================
| 1: capitalize others.at:24 ok
| 2: changeword others.at:44 ok (skipped near `others.at:47')
| 3: comments others.at:72 ok
| 4: ddivert others.at:93 ok
| 5: debug others.at:108 ok
| 6: discard comments others.at:139 ok
| ...
|
| It looks like this information is already passed to AT_SETUP in the
| .at files, so I guess this is probably a really minor change?
Right. In fact, the test suite used to create testsuite.log only upon
failure, which is no longer the case. At that time, specifying the
test source file was useful, and now I no longer think it is.
So how about a plain
==========================
Test suite for GNU m4 1.4q
==========================
1: capitalize ok
2: changeword ok (skipped)
3: comments ok
4: ddivert ok
5: debug ok
6: discard comments ok
...
on display, and
others.at:24: 1: capitalize ok
others.at:44: 2: changeword ok (skipped near `others.at:47')
others.at:72: 3: comments ok
others.at:93: 4: ddivert ok
others.at:108: 5: debug ok
others.at:139: 6: discard comments ok
in the log