Automake TESTS question

[John Calcote]

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I've got a simple unit test scenario - I want to run my program and
verify some text on its single output line. In a makefile, I might do this:

check:
        myprog | grep "myprog text"
        @echo PASSED!

In Automake, what's the simplest way to do this? I've found this way:

EXTRA_DIST = greptest.sh
TESTS = greptest.sh

But this requires me to:

1) Actually HAVE a one-line script file called "greptest.sh" as part of
my package.

2) Use the EXTRA_DIST line. Why is this? Can't Automake tell from the
TESTS line that this is a file I need in my distribution?

In my experiments, I've also discovered this method:

TESTS_ENVIRONMENT = $(SHELL)
TESTS = greptest.sh

greptest.sh:
       echo 'myprog | grep "myprog text"' > greptest.sh

clean-local:
       -rm greptest.sh

But this seems overly complex for a one-liner. In addition, I had to add
the TESTS_ENVIRONMENT line because I could NOT get chmod to set
greptest.sh to executable. The make utility just seemed to ignore the
command, if I added it after the echo line.

The clean-local line was necessary in this case because "make distcheck"
 complains that greptest.sh was left lying around, and the "-" in front
of "rm" was necessary because otherwise "make clean" will fail if "make
check" isn't run first.

Anyone know of a more concise way of doing this? Frankly, I'd like to
just run the script inline somewhere, but I can't see a way to do it
with Automake. It wants all TESTS to be real files.

Thanks,
John
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