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Re: test programs in C and C++


From: Vincent Torri
Subject: Re: test programs in C and C++
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2018 21:22:18 +0100

On Sun, Mar 11, 2018 at 1:53 PM, Vincent Delecroix
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am working on the C project e-antic [1] which also contains a (header
> only) C++ interface. Most of the tests are written in C but the ones
> testing the C++ interface are of course in C++. I am facing difficulties
> to make it work properly.
>
> The current automake setup is as follows
>
>  - /Makefile.am: for the C code compilation and the C test programs
>
>  - /e-antic/test/Makefile.am: for the C++ test programs
>
> First of all, I would be happier with only one Makefile.am but I am not
> sure it is easily feasible.

you can put everything in the top level Makefile.am, and use relative
path to the top level directory of you project, for example.

> Secondly, when running "make check" in VPATH
> builds the C++ test programs fail to find the header files (it works
> fine when the source tree and the build tree is the same). The relevant
> instructions in /e-antic/test/Makefile.am are
>
> AM_CPPFLAGS = -I../..
> LDADD = ../../libeantic.la

if ../../ is the top level directory, try :

AM_CPPFLAGS = -I$(top_srcdir)
LDADD = $(top_builddir)/libeantic.la

best regards

Vincent Torri

>
> and I believe that they are wrong. Though I was not able to fix them.
>
> Best
> Vincent
>
>  [1] https://github.com/videlec/e-antic
>



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