Re: TAP support documentation

[Stefano Lattarini]

On 11/16/2012 04:32 PM, Alexis Praga wrote:
>> No, it won't work properly, because the old (pre-1.12) Automake testsuite
>> harness won't be able to "see" and report the results saved in the *.trs
>> files.
> 
> Ok.
> 
> You might correctly see some "FAIL" displayed by the tap-driver.sh
>> script, but the final exit status of "make check" will still be zero,
>> regardless of such errors.
>>
>>> Otherwise, what do you recommand (upgrading is not an option) ?
>>>
>> If you really want to use TAP in you tests, you should use some other TAP
>> harness, like the 'prove' utility (warning: will require perl);
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion. Does it always come with perl ?
>
Yes (OTOH, the Automake harness requires just awk, but we've seen that
such harness is available only since Automake 1.12).

> For now, I would like to avoid too much dependencies. Maybe as a last
> resort measure.
> 

Regards,
  Stefano