Re: Running tests under wine.

[Ben Pfaff]

On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 06:56:17AM +0100, John Darrington wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 10:55:19PM +0100, Harry Thijssen wrote:
>      > Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2016 21:59:02 +0100
>      > From: John Darrington <address@hidden>
>      > To: address@hidden
>      > Subject: Running tests under wine.
>      >
>      > I pushed a change which allows many of the tests to run under wine.
>      >
>      > make RUNNER=wine check
>      >
>      > --
>      >
>      
>      I tried it  and see the results below. Due to a patch of mine, there 
> should
>      1 tests and 1 failure added to the counts.
>      Would the same trick work for some of the other executables used in the
>      tests?
> 
> Unfortunatey I don't think so.  For two reasons:
> 
> 1.  We cannot "shadow" the pspp-convert command using a bash function, 
> because 
>     bash functions cannot contain hyphens.

pspp-convert is much less of a problem, because I only see a few calls
to it.  It's easy enough to add $RUNNER directly to those.

> 2.  As discussed earlier, many of the other commands need to be compiled for 
> the
>     build machine rather than the host machine.  This will require significant
>     rearrangement of the automake files.

Yes, this is more of a problem.