Re: 23-fyi-simplify-tests-m4.patch

[Gary V. Vaughan]

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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