Hi, On 01.08.2013 00:46, Peng Yu wrote:
> I'm not able to understand the usage of TESTS in Makefile.am, as there > are many other things discussed in conjunction with TESTS and which > obscures the description of TESTS. Could anybody point me a minimal > example (without any things unrelated to TESTS) that demonstrates the > usage of TESTS? Thanks. While not an example, it can be simplified to: When 'make check' is run, each file listed in TESTS is executed in turn, and if the return code is non-zero, this is flagged as an error. Depending on your project, these files can be either scripts that invoke a program from your project and verifies its behaviour, or programs that are specially built, if you want to test a library. If you write TESTS = foo bar then 'make check' will invoke ,/foo followed by ./bar How "foo" and "bar" are built is completely independent, for a program you could use check_PROGRAMS = foo bar foo_SOURCES = foo.c bar_SOURCES = bar.c The "check_" tells automake to build these programs only before running the tests. Simon
