On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 21:03 -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > According to Braden McDaniel on 10/14/2007 8:33 PM: > > Is there something clever I could do to repeat a series of tests (in > > testsuite.at) with different executables? The tests consist of a series > > of input files. > > Autotest is built on top of m4sugar, which is a macro preprocessor, so it > sounds like you would just write a macro that takes one parameter (the > test you are running) and expands into the text that tests everything > using the parameter in place of the program name. Autoconf's own > tests/local.at shows a good example of writing macros that make it easier > to factor out the repetitive parts of tests into higher-level macros > conditionalized on the one part of the family of tests that differs > between tests. Or consider tests/autotest.m4, where the macro AT_CHECK_AT > expands into the entire AT_SETUP/AT_DATA/AT_CHECK/AT_CLEANUP sequence. Thanks for the pointers. Looks like I should be able to cook something up. -- Braden McDaniel e-mail: <braden@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> <http://endoframe.com> Jabber: <braden@xxxxxxxxxx> _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
