Re: link and run a (fortran) program redirecting its stdout/stderr

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Eric Blake wrote on Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 01:00:08PM CET:
> According to Ralf Wildenhues on 10/30/2009 12:31 AM:
> > Should we also document that the ACTION-IF-TRUE part of
> > AC_LINK_IFELSE allows linked programs to be inspected (not necessarily
> > run) and that of AC_COMPILE_IFELSE allows compiled objects to be
> > inspected?
> 
> Hmm, those aren't done as often (about all you can do is run nm on it;
> that seems like something libtool might want to do, but who else does it
> to be worth documenting it?).

You can rename it, compile another object and link both together.
There are cases where testing a program made up of more than one object
is of interest.

Even for libtool it would be nice to have certainty.  But you're right,
this isn't that urgent or important.

> >  And add testsuite exposure to each?
> 
> I won't turn down help on that front.

Not even needed: I merely didn't find
  tests/compile.at:Order of user actions and cleanup

until now.  Gee, I really should try to hack up that coverage map ...

Cheers,
Ralf