Re: Large number of tests when shell has limited argument list space

2007-02-06 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Albert, * Albert Chin wrote on Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 09:45:10PM CET: > > I don't know if this is easy, but check-TESTS could be modified to > iterate over more than one $(TESTS) variable: > check-TESTS: $(TESTS1) $(TESTS2) $(TESTS3) ... > @failed=0; all=0; xfail=0; xpass=0; skip=

Re: Large number of tests when shell has limited argument list space

2007-02-06 Thread Albert Chin
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 03:24:14PM -0600, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Albert Chin wrote: > > > >I don't know if this is easy, but check-TESTS could be modified to > >iterate over more than one $(TESTS) variable: > > check-TESTS: $(TESTS1) $(TESTS2) $(TESTS3) ... > > There are like

Re: Large number of tests when shell has limited argument list space

2007-02-06 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Albert Chin wrote: I don't know if this is easy, but check-TESTS could be modified to iterate over more than one $(TESTS) variable: check-TESTS: $(TESTS1) $(TESTS2) $(TESTS3) ... There are likely Makefile.am files which are using the value of TESTS for other purposes. Th

Re: Large number of tests when shell has limited argument list space

2007-02-06 Thread Albert Chin
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 09:06:42AM +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Albert Chin wrote on Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 05:52:43AM CET: > > ImageMagick-6.2.9 has a large number of tests. The check-TESTS rule in > > automake-1.10 is: > > check-TESTS: $(TESTS) > > ... > > list=' $(TESTS) '; \ >

Re: Large number of tests when shell has limited argument list space

2007-02-06 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Albert, Thanks for the report. * Albert Chin wrote on Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 05:52:43AM CET: > ImageMagick-6.2.9 has a large number of tests. The check-TESTS rule in > automake-1.10 is: > check-TESTS: $(TESTS) > ... > list=' $(TESTS) '; \ > Because AIX 4.3.3 has a small limit on t