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author | Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> | 2012-06-28 15:57:28 +0200 |
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committer | Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> | 2012-06-28 16:28:16 +0200 |
commit | 7721f22a2c0f5b286d04427d011351602341de02 (patch) | |
tree | b55f3e46fa9d8ef16856034337317f6b40e34d20 /t/README | |
parent | 8eda774e3d2311513a35c49d7cad5e05c5fd9e03 (diff) | |
parent | b21d68690612214d8edd810acf11880c3c0ad586 (diff) | |
download | automake-7721f22a2c0f5b286d04427d011351602341de02.tar.gz |
Merge branch 'master' into ng/master
* master:
cosmetics: remove trailing whitespace in some files
coverage: enhance tests in 'missing' script a little
coverage: tests AM_MISSING_PROG usage
docs: document AM_MISSING_PROG
tests: fix a spurious failure with Solaris make
tests: simpler workaround for shells losing the exit status in exit trap
tests: avoid several spurious failures on Solaris
tests: avoid a spurious failure on NetBSD
+ Extra non-trivial edits:
* Several tests: Adjusted to use 'exit' rather than 'Exit'.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 't/README')
-rw-r--r-- | t/README | 7 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 5 deletions
@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ Writing test cases changes the test by adding a failing command after the last command, the test will spuriously fail because '$?' is nonzero at the end. Note that this is relevant even if the errexit shell flag is on, in - case the test contains commands like "grep ... Makefile.in && Exit 1" + case the test contains commands like "grep ... Makefile.in && exit 1" (and there are indeed a lot of such tests). * Use $ACLOCAL, $AUTOMAKE, $AUTOCONF, $AUTOUPDATE, $AUTOHEADER, @@ -215,9 +215,6 @@ Writing test cases likely to fail, display its output even in the failure case, before exiting. -* Use 'Exit' rather than 'exit' to abort for leave early from a test - case. - * Use '$PATH_SEPARATOR', not hard-coded ':', as the separator of PATH's entries. @@ -282,7 +279,7 @@ Writing test cases generated configure scripts do not ensure they will find a truly POSIX shell (even though they will prefer and use it *if* it's found). -* Do not test an Automake error with "$AUTOMAKE && Exit 1", or in three +* Do not test an Automake error with "$AUTOMAKE && exit 1", or in three years we'll discover that this test failed for some other bogus reason. This happened many times. Better use something like |