Hi Ed, * Ed Hartnett wrote on Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 07:52:01PM CET: > > My current problem is that I have some reference netCDF files, which > ship with the distribution. I also have a test program, which produces > data files that need to be identical to the reference files shipped > with the dist. > > But the problem is the reference files are in the source directory, > and the test files are in the build directory. > > At the moment, I am doing this with a one-line shell script, which > does something like this: > > cmp nctest_classic.nc ref_nctest_classic.nc > > What I need to do, apparently, is somehow construct this shell script > from the Makefile, using $(srcdir) somehow.
This would be one possibility. You could have a shell_script.in with srcdir="@srcdir@" cmp "$srcdir/ref_nctest_classic.nc" nctest_classic.nc and list shell_script in configure.ac as AC_CONFIG_FILES([shell_script], [chmod a+x shell_script]) But this is probably even overkill. You could just export a shell variable containing srcdir from Makefile to the script -- no need to construct that at all, then: If, for example, you use the Automake test feature, as in TESTS = shell_script ... check_SCRIPTS = ... check_PROGRAMS = ... then you could just add TESTS_ENVIRONMENT = srcdir="$(srcdir)" ... and use "$srcdir" within the script. Or, if you have many scripts that share some initialization, you could just substitute this initialization part and source that from all shell scripts (by `. ./defs', for example). > Or is there a way to use some make target for this? Any suggestions or > web examples would be helpful. I'm going to take another look at the > info files and around the web. There must be a better way to run this > cmp test without a whole extra shell script! Yep. Examples for test suites are contained in (sorry for the shameless plugs): Automake test suite: Automake, Libtool-1.5.x Autotest test suite: Autoconf, Libtool-CVS DejaGNU test suite: GCC Cheers, Ralf
