* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 10:21:36AM CET: > On Monday 14 February 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > > --- /dev/null > > > +++ b/tests/instspc-data.test > > > > > +# Helper testcase which generate input data for the other test > > > +# `instspc-*.test'. It basically delegates the work to the helper > > > +# script `instspc-test.sh'. > > > > As an alternative to a helper testcase, this could also just be a helper > > script whose run is a prerequisite to the instspc*.log files. That way > > you don't have a bogus test result.
> I had already tried a similar approach in the first version of the patch: > <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2010-11/msg00152.html> > but IMHO that turned out to be slightly more fragile and more complex than > the current approach. So I'd rather not go back there. It is not immediately obvious why the approach was more fragile; care to elaborate on that? Asking just out of curiosity. Sorry for overlooking that you had already tried this. Cheers, Ralf
