GNU Hello builds its manpage (which it dists) by building and running
the binary and capturing its --help output.
This is quite common (among GNU packages anyway). So it is not
surprising Jim (hi Jim) committed a general solution.
A blanket depend on $(BUILT_SOURCES) for all
Hi Peter,
Thanks for your reply.
As to the workarounds, they are just that and I had coined my own for "my
machine" ™. The standard solution for "display test name before starting it"
(controlled by a new AC option) would be much more palatable for consumer to
add to their Makefile.am and
BUILT_SOURCES solves a useful problem and we use it in our package for
a few things. Its stated purpose (from the docs) is all about
compilation and dependency tracking. It makes sense that
$(BUILT_SOURCES) should then be built as a prerequisite before any
targets that result in compilation:
Hi Kasper,
I leave to the maintainers to comment on the suggestion, but in the
meantime...
On 1/7/21 1:01 pm, Kasper k wrote:
Hello automake devs,
In script based testsuites
Hello automake devs,
In script based testsuites
(https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Scripts_002dbased-Testsuites.html#Scripts_002dbased-Testsuites),
when we run `make check` it prints one of the following string for each test:
PASS , FAIL , XFAIL or SKIP .
However, in
