Re: [Automake-NG] [PATCH 15/17] [ng] check: accept dot-less entries in $(TEST_EXTENSIONS)

[Akim Demaille]

Le 22 mai 2012 à 22:50, Stefano Lattarini a écrit :

> Since the beginning of the parallel-tests harness, we've been requiring
> that the entries in $(TEST_EXTENSIONS) begin with a dot (as suggested by
> the name "extensions").  But it's clear that if an user writes something
> like:
> 
>    TEST_EXTENSIONS = test sh
> 
> he actually means:
> 
>    TEST_EXTENSIONS = .test .sh
> 
> So let's try to be more user-friendly, and some DWIM processing on the
> content of $(TEST_EXTENSIONS).

Well, I'm not so sure about this one.  What if someone wants to
write tests with ,ext?  Reading the diff I'm not sure it wouldn't
work, yet we'd have two different ways to say the same thing, which
I don't think is a good property.

Btw, it would be nice if Automake-ng could use a single convention
where automake uses several.

     AM_DEFAULT_SOURCE_EXT = .cpp

Also, OBJEXT does not include the dot, whereas EXEEXT does.  With
%-pattern rules, everything could be made alike, no?