Hi everybody, I am wondering if there is an elegant way to pass additional diff options on to AT_CHECK in a testsuite - ideally on the level of .ac, .am, .at files or alike? In autotest/general.m4, the variable at_diff carries the diff command and is defined as 'diff' or 'diff -u' (cf. http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/autoconf.git/tree/lib/autotest/general.m4#n 1047): # Use `diff -u' when possible. if at_diff=`diff -u "$at_devnull" "$at_devnull" 2>&1` && test -z "$at_diff" then at_diff='diff -u' else at_diff=diff fi configure translates this code snip into the script testsuite where - and this is really evil hackery I solemnly confess and I would like to avoid - I changed the definition of the variable at_diff. In my cases the diff options are the same for all tests in each of the relevant projects. I am aware that the test output could be restructured, but this question focuses at autoconf, autotest, AT_CHECK and friends. Using a customized version of autotest/general.m4 would not be optimal, since the project should automatically benefit from updates of autoconf/automake out of the box. Any help on this would be great! Many thanks, J. _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
