Re: AT_line undefined when trying to use autotest

[Christopher Hulbert]

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 6:29 PM, Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
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>  According to Christopher Hulbert on 2/22/2008 2:18 PM:
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> | I'm looking into converting some existing test methods to use
>  | autotest. In doing so I ran into a problem that autom4te complained
>  | AT_line was undefined.
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>  You invoked AT_CHECK outside of a AT_SETUP/AT_CLEANUP pair.  Hmm, maybe it
>  would be nicer to make AT_CHECK issue a nicer warning if users make this
>  mistake.  But for now, I'll just do a documentation patch:

Thanks. I can't believe I missed that!

Chris

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> From e53a6566d0935b22f83b733abaf6df1d1d662a48 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>  From: Eric Blake <address@hidden>
>  Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:23:48 -0700
>  Subject: [PATCH] Improve documentation for writing autotest suites.
>
>  * doc/autoconf.texi (Writing Testsuites) <AT_CHECK>: Mention that
>  checks must live inside a test group.
>  Reported by Christopher Hulbert.
>
>  Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>
>  ---
>   ChangeLog         |    7 +++++++
>   doc/autoconf.texi |    2 ++
>   2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
>  diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
>  index fc0183b..c48ebce 100644
>  --- a/ChangeLog
>  +++ b/ChangeLog
>  @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
>  +2008-02-22  Eric Blake  <address@hidden>
>  +
>  +       Improve documentation for writing autotest suites.
>  +       * doc/autoconf.texi (Writing Testsuites) <AT_CHECK>: Mention that
>  +       checks must live inside a test group.
>  +       Reported by Christopher Hulbert.
>  +
>   2008-02-21  Eric Blake  <address@hidden>
>
>         Sync git-version-gen from upstream.
>  diff --git a/doc/autoconf.texi b/doc/autoconf.texi
>  index 07c6699..ea5997a 100644
>  --- a/doc/autoconf.texi
>  +++ b/doc/autoconf.texi
>  @@ -20227,6 +20227,8 @@ status 77, then the whole test group is skipped.  
> Otherwise, if this test
>   fails, run shell commands @var{run-if-fail} or, if this test passes, run 
> shell
>   commands @var{run-if-pass}.
>
>  +This macro must be invoked in between @code{AT_SETUP} and @code{AT_CLEANUP}.
>  +
>   @c Previously, we had this:
>   @c  The @var{commands} @emph{must not} redirect the standard output, nor the
>   @c  standard error.
>  --
>  1.5.4
>
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>