* Bruno Haible wrote on Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 08:41:50PM CET: > Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > > That's one of the (few) advantages of having the > > whole suite as a single script. > > I still don't see the advantage of requiring a "make testsuite" step.
It's the other way round: the possibility to use the flexibility of m4 is helpful, both for implementing a testsuite environment, and deploying invidividual tests, once you're used to it. If I understand correctly though, one factor was also the possibility to write a testsuite environment that did not require a shell with functions, at the time Autotest was created. I may be wrong on this. Cheers, Ralf
