RE: Question on --test-name=NAME

[Arthur Schwarz]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gavin Smith [mailto:address@hidden 
> Sent: Sunday, April 26, 2015 1:42 PM
> To: Arthur Schwarz
> Cc: Automake Mailing List
> Subject: Re: Question on --test-name=NAME
> 
> > As a point, 15.3.3.1 Command-line arguments for test drivers shows all
> > options as having the syntax "--option=value". Your example does not
have
> > this syntax. Will your example work? Should this be in the manual, as in
> > "--option[=| ]value?"
> 
> I am sure that both should be supported although I haven't found a
> reference for this.
> 
> > By the way, you have "@p='t/file.sh'" and --test-name "$$f". Do you mean
> > --test-name "$$p"?
> 
> I just copied from a Makefile.in file, which does work. You wouldn't
> be writing something like that by hand. I expect the "f" variable is
> hidden in $(am__check_pre) somewhere.
>

Bye the bye:


"15.3.3.1 Command-line arguments for test drivers

A custom driver can rely on various command-line options and arguments being
passed to it automatically by the Automake-generated test harness. It is
mandatory that it understands all of them (even if the exact interpretation
of the associated semantics can legitimately change between a test driver
and another, and even be a no-op in some drivers)."

Which covers your comments about the command line interface being a test
driver option. However, I don't see any mechanism to pass a test driver
option to a driver. The _FLAGS seems to be for the _DRIVER. Do you know how
this is done?