Re: how to run a test file with command line options...

[Ed Hartnett]

Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi Ed,
>
> * Ed Hartnett wrote on Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 10:09:05PM CEST:
>> 
>> If I have some tests, and want to run them with command line options,
>> how do I do it?
>
> You are using the Automake builtin support for tests.  It's quite
> limited, and I believe it cannot do what you want.

OK.

>
>> For example, I have to have a shell script to run tst_parallel below,
>> because it needs to be called with the poe command, and some env vars
>> set. In other cases, I need to call test program with some command
>> line options.
>
> If you don't want to stick with this, there are alternative testing
> frameworks:  Autoconf's Autotest -- see the Autoconf documentation
> (since it's a bit underdocumented and declared not yet as mature, it
> may help to look at how other packages use it in order to get going).
> Otherwise, there is always DejaGNU (big, complicated but can do a lot
> of stuff).

DejaGNU is too much for my needs.

Maybe in a release or two I'll look at autotest.

Thanks!

Ed
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