Re: Automake Manual pg. 113 qutestion

[Gavin Smith]

On 2 April 2015 at 17:41, Arthur Schwarz <address@hidden> wrote:
> Win7-64-bit
> Cygwin
> Automake 1.14.1
>
> The example given on the page has:
>
> % cat configure.ac
>  o o o
> AC_REQUIRE_AUX_FILE([tap-driver.sh])
>
>  o o o
>
> % cat Makefile.am
> TEST_LOG_DRIVER = env AM_TAP_AWK='$(AWK)' $(SHELL) \
>      $(top_srcdir)/build-aux/tap-driver.sh
>
>  o o o
>
> % cp PREFIX/share/automake-APIVERSION/tap-driver.pl .
>
> Do you mean
>
> % cp /PREFIX/share/automake-APIVERSION/tap-driver.sh .
>

 That's what it says on
https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Use-TAP-with-the-Automake-test-harness.html#Use-TAP-with-the-Automake-test-harness
so it must have been fixed.

> On my cygwin system there are several automakes (automake-1.5 automake-1.7
> automake-1.9 automake-1.4 automake-1.6 automake-1.8 automake-1.10
> automake-1.11 automake-1.12 automake-1.13 automake-1.14) which allows (I
> suspect) inconsistencies between versions to be best accommodated by
> selecting a version of choice (?). In consequence the tap-driver.sh
> reference is version specific (automake-*/). Again on my system, there is no
> automake-APIVERSION. So, is this access path specific to Unix* or is it no
> longer relevant?

It depends on how the cygwin package was installed. You should be able
to find the tap-driver.sh file somewhere.