Re: patch-1: testsuite automake version requirements

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Hallo Ralf!

I'm back in the UK for a few weeks :-D

Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> * Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 03:56:15PM CET:
>
> > I'll be replying to this mail with a number of patches, separated by
> > logical changes, and *should* work in the order posted (I hope).
> > - two patches for compatibility with older Automake
>
> *snip*
>
> Not really sure about how to handle old Automake versions.
> The biggest question, testsuite-wise, is whether we should go back to
> the old
>   AC_INIT
>   AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(package, release)
>
> scheme, and put automake options in Makefile.am's
>   AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = ...
>
> For now I have only done the latter.  That way, the mechanism to detect
> this and flag `expected failure' at least works with the old automake.
>
> But this also means that we have very little actual test exposure
> for versions <1.6.
>
> Comments?

Patch looks good by inspection.

Maybe we could put the bulk of the tests from testsuite.at inside a
loop (oversimplified for explanatory purposes):

  for AMMINOR in 10 9 8 7 6 5 4; do
    AUTOMAKE=automake-1.$AMMINOR
    test -x $AUTOMAKE || continue

    echo "*** Running testsuite with $AUTOMAKE ***"
    echo
    m4_include(*.at)
    echo
  done

Then any problems with compatibility with older automake APIs should
come out in the wash...

Cheers,
        Gary.
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