On 11/16/2012 04:32 PM, Alexis Praga wrote: >> No, it won't work properly, because the old (pre-1.12) Automake testsuite >> harness won't be able to "see" and report the results saved in the *.trs >> files. > > Ok. > > You might correctly see some "FAIL" displayed by the tap-driver.sh >> script, but the final exit status of "make check" will still be zero, >> regardless of such errors. >> >>> Otherwise, what do you recommand (upgrading is not an option) ? >>> >> If you really want to use TAP in you tests, you should use some other TAP >> harness, like the 'prove' utility (warning: will require perl); > > Thanks for the suggestion. Does it always come with perl ? > Yes (OTOH, the Automake harness requires just awk, but we've seen that such harness is available only since Automake 1.12).
> For now, I would like to avoid too much dependencies. Maybe as a last > resort measure. > Regards, Stefano
