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| author | Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> | 2011-01-19 20:20:37 +0100 |
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| committer | Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> | 2011-01-19 20:38:44 +0100 |
| commit | 10315b6dc8fe65f86a901ee9692271b2e8e4f541 (patch) | |
| tree | f823fc20e573487d381b8316a3d2244f9f7938df /doc | |
| parent | d652a1c0a5bf2f973c5328eed983b4df9ccd284f (diff) | |
| download | automake-10315b6dc8fe65f86a901ee9692271b2e8e4f541.tar.gz | |
docs: automake testsuite doesn't use TESTS_ENVIRONMENT anymore
* doc/automake.texi (Simple Tests): Do not claim Automake uses
TESTS_ENVIRONMENT for the perl driver. Instead, point to the
parallel-tests driver.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/automake.texi | 14 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/automake.texi b/doc/automake.texi index 73c0e51b5..3d6a7b023 100644 --- a/doc/automake.texi +++ b/doc/automake.texi @@ -8596,13 +8596,19 @@ variables for the test run; the environment variable @env{srcdir} is set in the rule. If all your test programs are scripts, you can also set @code{TESTS_ENVIRONMENT} to an invocation of the shell (e.g. @samp{$(SHELL) -x} can be useful for debugging the tests), or any other -interpreter. For instance the following setup is used by the Automake -package to run four tests in Perl. +interpreter. For instance, the following setup may be used to run tests +with Perl: + @example -TESTS_ENVIRONMENT = $(PERL) -Mstrict -I $(top_srcdir)/lib -w -TESTS = Condition.pl DisjConditions.pl Version.pl Wrap.pl +TESTS_ENVIRONMENT = $(PERL) -Mstrict -w +TESTS = foo.pl bar.pl baz.pl @end example +Note that the @option{parallel-tests} driver provides a more elegant +way to achieve the same effect, freeing the @code{TESTS_ENVIRONMENT} +variable for the user to override (@pxref{Simple Tests using +parallel-tests}). + @cindex Tests, expected failure @cindex Expected test failure |