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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 |