Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi Ed, > > * Ed Hartnett wrote on Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 10:09:05PM CEST: >> >> If I have some tests, and want to run them with command line options, >> how do I do it? > > You are using the Automake builtin support for tests. It's quite > limited, and I believe it cannot do what you want.
OK. > >> For example, I have to have a shell script to run tst_parallel below, >> because it needs to be called with the poe command, and some env vars >> set. In other cases, I need to call test program with some command >> line options. > > If you don't want to stick with this, there are alternative testing > frameworks: Autoconf's Autotest -- see the Autoconf documentation > (since it's a bit underdocumented and declared not yet as mature, it > may help to look at how other packages use it in order to get going). > Otherwise, there is always DejaGNU (big, complicated but can do a lot > of stuff). DejaGNU is too much for my needs. Maybe in a release or two I'll look at autotest. Thanks! Ed -- Ed Hartnett -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
