Ed Hartnett wrote: > Howdy all! > > If I have some tests, and want to run them with command line options, > how do I do it? > > 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. > > check_PROGRAMS = tst_parallel > TESTS = run_par_test.sh > > Where run_par_test.sh is: > > MP_TASKS_PER_NODE=4 MP_PROCS=4 poe ./tst_parallel >
Since Automake is based on Perl it should be pretty easy to do some cgi-style replacement, e.g. TESTS = MP_TASKS_PER_NODE=4%20MP_PROCS=4%20poe%20./tst_parallel Pretty ugly and error-prone, of course, but it would be more or less backward compatible, and better than nothing. Justanidea. Regards Harri
