Re: [FYI] {maint,master} test defs: allow overriding of `$me'

2011-04-17 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Stefano, * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 09:36:42PM CEST: > On Sunday 17 April 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > > am_test_name is better, but doesn't explain either why it would be > > needed in the first place. > > > Second patch of: >

Re: [PATCH] {maint} tests: new subroutines for test skipping/failing

2011-04-17 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On Sunday 17 April 2011, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > On Sunday 17 April 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > Hello Stefano, > > > > * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 03:27:17PM CEST: > > > Reference: > > > > > >

[PATCH] test defs: don't allow `$me' to be overridden from the environment (was: Re: [FYI] {maint, master} test defs: allow overriding of `$me')

2011-04-17 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On Sunday 17 April 2011, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > On Sunday 17 April 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 06:27:44PM CEST: > > > Subject: [PATCH] test defs: allow overriding of `$me' > > > > > > * tests/defs.in ($me): Allow overriding by the includin

Re: [FYI] {maint,master} test defs: allow overriding of `$me'

2011-04-17 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On Sunday 17 April 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 09:08:54PM CEST: > > On Sunday 17 April 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > > Otherwise you will have spurious failures (and to some extent > > > "arbitrary code execution" upon a testsuite run). > > >

Re: [FYI] {maint,master} test defs: allow overriding of `$me'

2011-04-17 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 09:08:54PM CEST: > On Sunday 17 April 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > Otherwise you will have spurious failures (and to some extent > > "arbitrary code execution" upon a testsuite run). > > > What about initilizing me from `$am_test_name' then? On

Re: [PATCH] {maint} Warnings about primary/prefix mismatch fixed and extended.

2011-04-17 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Reference: On Wednesday 30 March 2011, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > References: > > > > Ping^2

Re: [FYI] {maint,master} test defs: allow overriding of `$me'

2011-04-17 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On Sunday 17 April 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 06:27:44PM CEST: > > Subject: [PATCH] test defs: allow overriding of `$me' > > > > * tests/defs.in ($me): Allow overriding by the including test > > script. Add some explicative comments. > > What

Re: [PATCH] {maint} tests: new subroutines for test skipping/failing

2011-04-17 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On Sunday 17 April 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Hello Stefano, > > * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 03:27:17PM CEST: > > Reference: > > > > > > On Wednesday 30 March 2011, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > > >

Re: [FYI] {maint,master} test defs: allow overriding of `$me'

2011-04-17 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 06:27:44PM CEST: > Subject: [PATCH] test defs: allow overriding of `$me' > > * tests/defs.in ($me): Allow overriding by the including test > script. Add some explicative comments. What if the user environment contains $me? Will that be overridde

Re: [PATCH] {maint} tests: new subroutines for test skipping/failing

2011-04-17 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Stefano, * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 03:27:17PM CEST: > Reference: > > > On Wednesday 30 March 2011, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > > > > > $(AM_TESTS_SETUP) $(TESTS_SETUP) $(TESTS_ENVIRONMENT)

[FYI] {maint,master} test defs: allow overriding of `$me'

2011-04-17 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Hello automakers. The attached patch is a prerequisite for the pending patch of mine "tests: avoid extra test generation (for `instspc' tests)" (reference: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2011-02/msg00044.html) and for another patch I'm writing that will extend the coverage offe

[FYI] {master} coverage: more tests on the parallel-tests driver

2011-04-17 Thread Stefano Lattarini
I've pushed the attached patch to master. The new tests pass on Debian GNU/Linux and on Solaris with /bin/sh and XPG4 make. Regards, Stefano -*-*- * tests/parallel-tests-interrupt.test: New test. * tests/parallel-tests-reset-term.test: Likewise. * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update. --- Chang

Re: [PATCH] {maint} tests: new subroutines for test skipping/failing

2011-04-17 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Reference: On Wednesday 30 March 2011, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > On Monday 14 March 2011, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > > Hello Ralf and all automakers. > > > > Reference: > >

[FYI] {maint} depcomp tests: don't reject slower dependency extractors

2011-04-17 Thread Stefano Lattarini
* tests/depcomp8b.test: Add the `--enable-dependency-tracking' option to the ./configure invocation, so that slower dependency extractors are not rejects. * tests/depcomp8b.test: Likewise. Also ... (foo.c): ... since we are at it, fix spacing to be consistent with GNU coding standards. --- Change

Re: [PATCH 0/2] tests: avoid extra test generation (for `instspc' tests)

2011-04-17 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Reference: On Wednesday 16 February 2011, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > Hello automakers. > > Recently, I've looked again into the `instspc*.test' tests (for more info: >

Re: bug#8483: missing serial number in soem automake-provided m4 files

2011-04-17 Thread Stefano Lattarini
tags 8483 patch close 8483 thanks Hello Ralf, sorry for the delay. On Tuesday 12 April 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 10:43:36AM CEST: > > I've recently noticed that some *.m4 files in the Automake distribution > > lack a serial number: > > > >