Hello,
* Eric Blake wrote on Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 02:31:17PM CET:
> According to Jim Meyering on 1/14/2010 1:08 AM:
> > Think of a set-up function that (when $EXEEXT is nonempty)
> > iterates through the *.$EXEEXT executables in a specified directory...
> >
> > create_exe_shim_functions ()
> > {
> > case $EXEEXT in
> > '') return 0 ;;
> > .exe) ;;
> > *) echo "$0: unexpected value of $EXEEXT" 1>&2; return 1 ;;
> > esac
>
> So we still have to pass EXEEXT through TESTS_ENVIRONMENT in
> modules/*-tests for any test that uses a .sh file.
I've always wondered why gnulib doesn't simply do that by default for
all of its tests modules. I mean, you could get fancy and write a
module that does nothing but passing EXEEXT through TESTS_ENVIRONMENT
and let all compiled tests depend on that, but what's the point?
(Sure, just looking for files matching *.exe is probably safe in
practice as well.)
Just my two cents.
Cheers,
Ralf
