We use the autoconf generated testsuite script in GnuCOBOL to test the compiler and runtime - and it works very well for "normal" tests.
There are some tests where the compiler should abort and it does, but when it does so "correctly" by raising SIGABRT we can check for return code 134 but get an additional stderr message similar to "/full/path/to/testsuite.de/testcasenumber/run aborted on line 40" (and I don't know if SIGABRT will result in return code 134 on all "exotic" systems). The following options come to mind: * use `trap` in AT_CHECK to catch the error if it is the expected result --> should fix the additional stderr, we still would have to check for return code 134 * use some builtin expectation similar to XFAIL(true) - but I don't found anything like this in the docs * when running the testsuite (we have one case where we check this via an environment variable set in atlocal and return 77 for skipping the test if the compiler cannot use an external tool) don't raise SIGABRT but something like `exit 96` Do you have any experience/thoughts about this? Is there any "best practice" (ideally as official documentation) for checking signals in the autoconf generated testsuite script? Thank you in advance, Simon _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
