On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Robert Collins wrote:
On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 20:30 -0500, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
It would be quite helpful if Automake offered a mode in which it automatically changed the working directory to the directory where the test program/script resides and set $srcdir to the relative position in the source tree to support VPATH builds. This would emulate the operation of recursive builds. Either a global Automake option could be used to enable this (subdir-tests), or a "RTESTS" (relative tests) mode would be provided.
It seems that this topic has not caught anyone's interest since there have been no follow-up posts today. Surely someone else has converted their recursive project to a non-recursive project and noticed that it is very difficult to get test suites working again?
I found it trivial. Mind you, all my tests are - by design - self contained.
Most of the tests for the package I maintain require that the test read an existing input file, and write an output file. Sometimes the written result needs to be compared with another existing file.
For scripts I can find the source directory (where input files are stored) by doing something like
SRCDIR=`dirname $0`/
in the script. Unfortunately, this cludge is apparently not working if the build directory is under the source tree, so distcheck is failing. Probably another layer of cludges is required. :-)
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