Re: [PATCH 11] Fix LAZY_TEST_SUITE handling and $(TEST_SUITE_LOG) recreation.

[Akim Demaille]

Le 20 mars 09 à 00:24, Ralf Wildenhues a écrit :

> Retaining the "TESTS=foo*.test" thing without GNU make-specific  
> measures
> is tricky.  It requires to shell-expand $(TESTS), before we even start
> using either of $(TESTS) or $(TEST_LOGS).  IIUC that means we have to
> introduce yet another restart of 'make'.  :-/
> Do you see another way?

Actually I'm not even sure this is the right approach: after all there  
is nothing that requires the contents of TESTS to be actual files, is  
there?  Maybe they are just .PHONY and just the name is the test, or  
the files are generated, in which case globbing will not work.

Maybe it should not be file globbing, but some kind of filtering  
(maybe case/esac-based) on the whole list of available TESTS.  I like  
to be able to run "make check TESTS='*foo*'" and have all the tests  
that have "foo" in it, whatever the directory it's in.  File-based  
globbing won't do.

But I agree I see no means to avoid another invocation of make :(