RE: Question on --test-name=NAME

2015-04-26 Thread Arthur Schwarz
> -Original Message- > From: Gavin Smith [mailto:gavinsmith0...@gmail.com] > Sent: Sunday, April 26, 2015 1:42 PM > To: Arthur Schwarz > Cc: Automake Mailing List > Subject: Re: Question on --test-name=NAME > > > As a point, 15.3.3.1 Command-line arguments for test drivers shows all > >

Re: Question on --test-name=NAME

2015-04-26 Thread Gavin Smith
> As a point, 15.3.3.1 Command-line arguments for test drivers shows all > options as having the syntax "--option=value". Your example does not have > this syntax. Will your example work? Should this be in the manual, as in > "--option[=| ]value?" I am sure that both should be supported although I

RE: Question on --test-name=NAME

2015-04-26 Thread Arthur Schwarz
(thanks by the way) > On 26 April 2015 at 18:39, Arthur Schwarz wrote: > > Now for the case you mentioned in identifying a program, which is > > really a test case renamed in the manual for mystifying and unknowable > > reasons. Well, there is no mechanism for "The first non-option > > argume

Re: Question on --test-name=NAME

2015-04-26 Thread Gavin Smith
On 26 April 2015 at 18:39, Arthur Schwarz wrote: > Now for the case you mentioned in identifying a program, which is really a > test case renamed in the manual for mystifying and unknowable reasons. Well, > there is no mechanism for "The first non-option argument passed to the test > driver is the

RE: Question on --test-name=NAME

2015-04-26 Thread Arthur Schwarz
> > > -Original Message- > From: Gavin Smith [mailto:gavinsmith0...@gmail.com] > Sent: Sunday, April 26, 2015 9:03 AM > To: Arthur Schwarz > Cc: Automake Mailing List > Subject: Re: Question on --test-name=NAME > > On 26 April 2015 at 16:30, Arthur Schwarz wrote: > > > > > > 15.3.3.1 C

Re: Question on --test-name=NAME

2015-04-26 Thread Gavin Smith
On 26 April 2015 at 16:30, Arthur Schwarz wrote: > > > 15.3.3.1 Command-line arguments for test drivers > >--test-name=NAME > >The name of the test, with VPATH prefix (if any) removed. This can > have a suffix and a directory component (as in e.g., sub/foo.test), and is > mostly meant

Question on --test-name=NAME

2015-04-26 Thread Arthur Schwarz
15.3.3.1 Command-line arguments for test drivers  --test-name=NAME The name of the test, with VPATH prefix (if any) removed. This can have a suffix and a directory component (as in e.g., sub/foo.test), and is mostly meant to be used in console reports about testsuite advancements and

Re: Automake Manuals (RANT)

2015-04-26 Thread Gavin Smith
On 26 April 2015 at 01:25, Arthur Schwarz wrote: > > Well, putting it gently you have a good product and one of (maybe, the) > worst manual on earth describing it. I'd like to see improvements as well, but calling other people's work "the worst manual on earth" is not conducive to soliciting thei