> No, it won't work properly, because the old (pre-1.12) Automake testsuite
> harness won't be able to "see" and report the results saved in the *.trs
> files.

Ok.

You might correctly see some "FAIL" displayed by the tap-driver.sh
> script, but the final exit status of "make check" will still be zero,
> regardless of such errors.
>
> > Otherwise, what do you recommand (upgrading is not an option) ?
> >
> If you really want to use TAP in you tests, you should use some other TAP
> harness, like the 'prove' utility (warning: will require perl);

Thanks for the suggestion. Does it always come with perl ?
For now, I would like to avoid too much dependencies. Maybe as a last
resort measure.

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Alexis Praga

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