Re: Extending gnustep-tests for .c and .cc files

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 17 Jun 2013, at 02:50, Stefan Bidi <address@hidden> wrote:

> I'd like to extend gnustep-tests to be able to test .c and .cc files.  The 
> obvious reason is because I'd like to be able to independently test -corebase 
> without having to link against against -base.

> I had took a peak into gnustep-tests.in and started preparing a patch.  I 
> tried to create a patch but have not been successful in making it actually 
> work.  To be honest, after a few hours of looking at the script, I haven't 
> been able to figure out exactly how it works.  I figured the run_test_file() 
> and build_and_run() are the correct place to build c and c++ files, so I 
> extended these (instead of trying to screw around with the GNUmakefile.in).  
> Attached is my failed attempt at patching gnustep-tests.
> 
> Could someone more familiar with the script give me some pointers to finish 
> the patch?  I believe I'm 50% there already, but I just don't understand 
> enough of what is happening in gnustep-tests to take it the rest of the way.

I think you just forgot to add a couple of lines to actually compile the files.
I added your patch plus those few lines.