Re: patch-3: adjust testsuite for redistribution checks

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Hallo Ralf!

Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> This patch shows what the next ones hope to achieve.
>
> You can set $tst_dist to `dist' or even `distcheck', if you want to
> wait even longer (days?).  Right now anything other than the empty value
> will provoke failures.  After all patches, it will work with any setting.
> Hopefully.

Sweet!

>         * tests/testsuite.at (PREPARE_TESTS): New variable `tst_dist',
>         default to empty.
>         * tests/nonrecursive.at, tests/recursive.at,
>         tests/standalone.at, tests/subproject.at: Use it in
>         LT_AT_BOOTSTRAP or LT_AT_MAKE, so that you can optionally test
>         redistribution within the tests.

As an improvement, maybe we should test all possibilities in each
relevant test:

 LT_AT_BOOTSTRAP([--copy --ltdl], [-I sub/ltdl/m4], [ignore],
        [--add-missing --copy], [], [--enable-ltdl-install --prefix=$prefix],
-       [all install])
+       [all install dist distcheck])

Hmmm... although that will be agonisingly slow.  Perhaps it would be
better to make this (and the outer loop I suggested in my last email)
conditional upon an environment variable, say, LT_TEST_EXHAUSTIVE=:?

in testsuite.at:

  test -z "$LT_TEST_EXHAUSTIVE" || tst_dist="dist distcheck"

As much as we might not want to subject all of our users to running
such an overly intensive test regime, making it as easy as possible for
us (and interested users) to do that would certainly improve our test
feedback.

Cheers,
        Gary.
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