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| author | Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> | 2013-04-25 21:03:40 +0200 |
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| committer | Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> | 2013-04-26 20:22:15 +0200 |
| commit | 526df875677f9e67b86c89ad1c611a77cb924662 (patch) | |
| tree | 4b230bfc32c170034c23c9eaa5f7b5eb31bf1a89 /doc | |
| parent | fa55c5d8b1f37114c7c908957e9165b5accdd655 (diff) | |
| download | automake-526df875677f9e67b86c89ad1c611a77cb924662.tar.gz | |
docs: issues with configure substitutions in TESTS
Motivated by automake bug#14019.
* doc/automake.texi: Currently, when the parallel test harness is in use,
configure substitutions in TESTS definitions can only work if they expand
to tests that ends with a suffix listed in TEST_EXTENSIONS. Document this
limitation.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/automake.texi | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/automake.texi b/doc/automake.texi index d3aefb5a2..e52cc3afe 100644 --- a/doc/automake.texi +++ b/doc/automake.texi @@ -9089,6 +9089,12 @@ followed by any number of alphabetic characters. For example, @samp{.sh}, @samp{.T} and @samp{.t1} are valid extensions, while @samp{.x-y}, @samp{.6c} and @samp{.t.1} are not. +@cindex Configure substitutions in @code{TESTS} +It is important to note that, due to current limitations (unlikely to be +lifted), configure substitutions in the definition of @code{TESTS} can +only work if they will expand to a list of tests that have a suffix listed +in @code{TEST_EXTENSIONS}. + @vindex _LOG_COMPILE @vindex _LOG_COMPILER @vindex _LOG_FLAGS |