-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Rikki McQueary on 2/9/2009 3:20 PM: Hello Rikki, [note that by using "-- " as the start of your message, that your entire mail appears as if it were your signature line, and was stripped when I hit reply in my mailer; I had to manually copy-and-paste your text before I could reply. In the future, please write the body of your message before your signature] > I have developed an autotest testsuite and within a list of tests I have > 4 tests that are expected to fail. I am using the following code to > indicate the specific test that is expected to fail: > AT_XFAIL_IF([AT_EXPR_RESPONSE_TEST_P][([test.1], ['"i,j&i<j"'], > [test.1c]]) AT_EXPR_RESPONSE_TEST_P is not an autotest macro, which means you probably wrote it. If that is the case, please consider changing its name to use a prefix of your own namespace, and leaving the AT_ namespace for official autotest macros; that way, if autotest ever does add a macro by that name in the future, you won't be faced with incompatible semantics. Your quoting is imbalanced; you have more ( than ), and putting quotes between AT_EXPR_RESPONSE_TEST_P and its arguments just looks weird. Why not write this as: AT_XFAIL_IF([AT_EXPR_RESPONSE_TEST_P([test.1], ['"i,j&i<j"'], [test.1c])]) > > My question is: Is this correct? And also in the output instead of the > test passing with an ok is there a way to signify the test failed but > was expected to fail? Yes, other than the quoting, that is the correct way to mark a test as conditionally failing. And for an example output, the m4.git repository has an xfail'd test where the output looks like: 9: Renamesyms collisions expected failure (macros.at:523) - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake ebb9@xxxxxxx -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkmRegMACgkQ84KuGfSFAYAZ0ACgzsjiL/xqL8ADTn87203TLCcU kz4AoJ9CLW0Arfu0i28FiGr+IoPiJzbe =ejVB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
