On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 20:30 -0500, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
It would be quite helpful if Automake offered a mode in which it
automatically changed the working directory to the directory where the test
program/script resides and set $srcdir to the relative position in the source
tree to support VPATH builds. This would emulate the operation of recursive
builds. Either a global Automake option could be used to enable this
(subdir-tests), or a "RTESTS" (relative tests) mode would be provided.
It seems that this topic has not caught anyone's interest since there
have been no follow-up posts today. Surely someone else has converted
their recursive project to a non-recursive project and noticed that it
is very difficult to get test suites working again?
I found it trivial. Mind you, all my tests are - by design - self
contained.