Re: /floppy/m4-patches/21-fyi-installcheck-works.patch

[Gary V. Vaughan]

On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 09:29:16AM +0200, Akim Demaille wrote:
> Wow, I'm moved...  It works!!!

Cool!

> Thanks to M4, Autotest made very significant progress!  As did my
> understanding of some issues in test suites.

Cooler still!

> I'm very tempted to release Autotest now (well, understand
> `beta-release Autoconf'), but there remains one ugly thing: you have
> to tell autom4te where are the library files, because up to now it has
> no index of them.
> 
> AFAICS, this is the one and only remaining task.

The only hing that I stiill dislike with AutoTest is that it doesn't
pretty print the test names as it executes them.  I'd really like to
see it do something like this:

==========================
Test suite for GNU m4 1.4q
==========================
   1: capitalize        others.at:24    ok
   2: changeword        others.at:44    ok (skipped near `others.at:47')
   3: comments          others.at:72    ok
   4: ddivert           others.at:93    ok
   5: debug             others.at:108   ok
   6: discard comments  others.at:139   ok
   ...
   
It looks like this information is already passed to AT_SETUP in the
.at files, so I guess this is probably a really minor change?

Cheers,
        Gary.
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