Re: Bundling Gnulib tests with an application

[Bruno Haible]

Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen wrote:
> When an application bundles Gnulib tests in its distribution, say in a
> folder named gnulib-tests, and has its own suite of Automake tests in the
> folder tests, the console output by Automake when running
> 
> make check
> 
> is suboptimal because it will print something like
> 
> ====================================
> Testsuite summary for MyProgram 1.0
> ====================================
> 
> twice, once when processing the tests folder and once when processing the
> gnulib-tests folder.
> 
> Is there a way to change the title that is printed by Automake?

I'm not aware of a documented way to change this.

Nevertheless, it is probably easy to do: When you look at the generated
Makefile.in and search for the string 'summary for', you will see that
it gets the text that follows it from a Makefile variable. This Makefile
variable gets its default value from the configure file. But if you
set a value in Makefile.am, it will override the value from the configure
file - locally in that Makefile only.

Bruno