Pádraig Brady <p...@draigbrady.com> wrote: >> The name after TESTS= should be the name of the file relative to >> the tests/ directory: >> >> make check -C tests TESTS=misc/newtest VERBOSE=yes > > Oops right :) > I noticed that the original README said: > > make check -C tests/misc TESTS=newtest VERBOSE=yes > > This doesn't work I think because there are no Makefile.am > files in the test subdirectories (there was related info > in tests/README that I didn't follow). > > Anyway the attached patch should contain info that currently works. > > cheers, > Pádraig. >>From 11dab666a195fa14d4bcb32ad8daef90a85c52a3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 ... > -as possible. > +as possible. Note to run tests/misc/newtest in isolation you can do: > + > + make check -C tests TESTS=misc/newtest VERBOSE=yes > > There are hundreds of tests in the tests/ directories. You can use > tests/sample-test as a template, or one of the various Perl-based ones > diff --git a/README b/README > index 157432e..2770faf 100644 > --- a/README > +++ b/README > @@ -164,12 +164,12 @@ in verbose mode for each failing test. For example, > if the test that fails is tests/mv/hard-link-1, then you > would run this command: > > - env VERBOSE=yes make check -C tests/mv TESTS=hard-link-1 >> log 2>&1 > + env VERBOSE=yes make check -C tests TESTS=mv/hard-link-1 >> log 2>&1 > > For some tests, you can get even more detail by including > DEBUG=yes in the environment: > > - env DEBUG=yes VERBOSE=yes make check -C tests/mv TESTS=hard-link-1 >> log > 2>&1 > + env DEBUG=yes VERBOSE=yes make check -C tests TESTS=mv/hard-link-1 >> log > 2>&1
Looks fine, now. Thanks for the clean-up. BTW, you can shorten those latter two commands by removing the leading "env " and putting the VERBOSE/DEBUG variable settings at the end, _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
