Re: Launch bash script for functional testing with "make check" and "make distcheck"

[Timothée Flutre]

Thanks, I've added TESTS_ENVIRONMENT (tried with or without "AC_") in
my test/Makefile.am and updated the rest like this:

launch_functional_tests.bash: $(srcdir)/launch_functional_tests.in
        sed -e 's,PATHTOMYPROG,$(myprog_abspath),g'
$(srcdir)/launch_functional_tests.in > launch_functional_tests.bash
        chmod +x launch_functional_tests.bash

However, the variable $(myprog_abspath) is empty! This can be seen on
the stdout when running "make":
...
make[1]: Entering directory `~/mypkg/test'
sed -e 's,PATHTOMYPROG,,g' ./launch_functional_tests.in >
launch_functional_tests.bash
chmod +x launch_functional_tests.bash
make[1]: Leaving directory `~/mypkg/test'
...

I'm using Automake v1.9.6. Can the problem come from this? (For
completeness, the machine I'm using has Autoconf v2.59.)

I also noticed that you wrote "export myprog_abspath;" and not "export
$(myprog_abspath);". Still, I tried both, but without success.

The manual also speaks of a script "tests-env.sh". Is there a GNU
package using something like this, so that I could have a look at it?

Tim

On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 6:22 AM, Stefano Lattarini
<address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On 01/09/2013 05:41 AM, Timothée Flutre wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I am using Autotools for my C++ package. My package has a single
> > binary (let's call it "myprog"). I also wrote a bash script,
> > "launch_functional_tests.bash". This script has 4 steps:
> > (1) create input files,
> > (2) generate expected output files (by launching something like "R
> > --file=functional_tests.R",
> > (3) launch "myprog" on the input files,
> > (4) compare the outputs of "prog" with the expected outputs generated
> > by the R script at step 2.
> >
> > In step 3, "launch_functional_tests.bash" needs to know the path to
> > "myprog". If I run the bashs cript on standalone myself, I give the
> > path to "myprog" as an option on the command-line. But what can I do
> > when using make check?
> >
> Pass is as an environment variable instead, and define that in
> AM_TESTS_ENVIRONMENT [1][2]; e.g. (untested):
>
>   AM_TESTS_ENVIRONMENT = \
>     my_prog_abspath='$(abs_top_srcdir)'/myprog;
>     export my_prog_abspath;
>
> (yes, the semicolon at the end is really required).
>
> That should work in VPATH setups as well, and in particular, in
> "make distcheck".
>
> [1] Reference to documentation:
>     
> <http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/automake.html#index-AM_005fTESTS_005fENVIRONMENT-842>
> [2] If you are catering to Automake 1.11 as well, you should use
>     TESTS_ENVIRONMENT instead of the safer AM_TESTS_ENVIRONMENT,
>     since the former is only supported starting with Automake 1.12.
>
> >
> > [MEGA-SNIP]
> >
>
> HTH,
>   Stefano