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Re: 23-fyi-simplify-tests-m4.patch
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Gary V. Vaughan |
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Re: 23-fyi-simplify-tests-m4.patch |
Date: |
Fri, 31 Aug 2001 19:06:16 +0100 |
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On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 01:40:29PM +0200, Akim Demaille wrote:
> >>>>> "Gary" == Gary V Vaughan <address@hidden> writes:
>
> >> But this cannot happen since the test suite relies upon PATH, so we
> >> can get rid of it, can't we?
>
> Gary> Yup. Neato!
>
> Yep. But there is one thing I don't like though: because the path is
> modified when you run the test suite, all you see is
>
> testsuite: running m4 -d -b blahblah.m4
>
> which, when you run the commands by hand is of course wrong. So what
> would be really cool is to use `m4' in AT_CHECK, but have the line
> displayed with the actual path to the exe.
>
> I don't know how to do that currently.
Since only the wrapper script knows where the executed m4 is located,
I guess that it is the wrapper script that needs to display the
message... or else have an option to return that path to the caller.
Cheers,
Gary.
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