Looks like I've got the automake to make. Thanks art
-----Original Message----- From: Bob Friesenhahn [mailto:bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us] Sent: Saturday, March 07, 2015 5:42 PM To: Arthur Schwarz Cc: automake@gnu.org Subject: Re: Trouble creating a check program in automake On Sat, 7 Mar 2015, Arthur Schwarz wrote: > I'm trying to learn automake (Autotools by John Calcotte) and am stumped on > creating a check program to test my C++ library. A partial listing of the > program is given below. The example in the text shows creation of a test > program using a shell script testing the output of the test program. I have > a program, linked to the library, which when executed tests the library > functionality. Do I have to create the test program using noinst and then > execute using a shell script? Any scripting examples or references to > examples would help. There needs to be check_PROGRAMS set to the list of programs which need to be built to support the 'check' target. It seems like you did that. However, I don't see where you created the build specification for the program 'Test' (e.g. Test_SOURCES). To be more clear, you can have many test programs so your 'check_SOURCES' specification does not make sense. Each test program has its own _SOURCES and the only program you have listed is 'Test'. I would offer my own project as an example but it is large, non-recursive, uses Makefile includes from subdirectories, and uses Automake's TAP test framework so it may not be easy to understand. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/