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Re: non-recursive make and tests
From: |
Bob Friesenhahn |
Subject: |
Re: non-recursive make and tests |
Date: |
Tue, 31 Aug 2004 00:08:41 -0500 (CDT) |
On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
The $(srcdir) value passed is often essentially useless since it may just be
'.'. It is difficult for the Makefile to produce better values except for
perhaps offsets from @abs_top_srcdir@ and @abs_top_builddir@ substitutions.
It may also be possible to play games by passing back-ticked shell script
fragments rather than normal values in the TESTS_ENVIRONMENT specification.
Regardless, the tests themselves should not have to know their position in
the source or build tree.
If I add this sort of junk to the top of my test scripts then they
seem to pass the tests:
set -e
SRCDIR=`dirname $0`
SRCDIR=`cd $SRCDIR && pwd`
TOPSRCDIR=`cd $srcdir && pwd`
cd utilities || exit 1
MODEL_MIFF="${TOPSRCDIR}/Magick++/demo/model.miff"
.
.
.
Without the pwd's distcheck can't pass since srcdir may be passed as a
useless '.'.
Unfortunately, with hundreds of such scripts, altering the test
environment to convert to a non-recursive make is quite a penalty.
Many scripts could be one-liners if Automake can produce a
per-directory test environment.
Bob
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