Hi Gary, * Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 12:41:28PM CET: > Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > * tests/testsuite.at (PREPARE_TESTS): New variable `tst_dist', > > default to empty. > > * tests/nonrecursive.at, tests/recursive.at, > > tests/standalone.at, tests/subproject.at: Use it in > > LT_AT_BOOTSTRAP or LT_AT_MAKE, so that you can optionally test > > redistribution within the tests. > > As an improvement, maybe we should test all possibilities in each > relevant test: > > LT_AT_BOOTSTRAP([--copy --ltdl], [-I sub/ltdl/m4], [ignore], > [--add-missing --copy], [], [--enable-ltdl-install --prefix=$prefix], > - [all install]) > + [all install dist distcheck]) That's redundant, distcheck implies dist. > Hmmm... although that will be agonisingly slow. Perhaps it would be > better to make this (and the outer loop I suggested in my last email) > conditional upon an environment variable, say, LT_TEST_EXHAUSTIVE=:? > > in testsuite.at: > > test -z "$LT_TEST_EXHAUSTIVE" || tst_dist="dist distcheck" > > As much as we might not want to subject all of our users to running > such an overly intensive test regime, making it as easy as possible for > us (and interested users) to do that would certainly improve our test > feedback. Yes, I like the idea. For now you can tst_dist=distcheck make check-local though, as a hack. We can introduce $LT_TEST_EXHAUSTIVE later, together with appropriate documentation (patch later in queue..). I've applied the patch as-is. Cheers, Ralf
