Question of Serial-Tests output

[Arthur Schwarz]

I just constructed a test case to checkout how automake works and got the
errors below. The tests worked correctly in that and fail is a FAIL, a skip
a SKIP etc., so superficially there doesn't seem to be anything wrong.

As another (2) issues:
1: There seems be a lot of chatter when "make check" is executed. Any way of
reducing the unnecessary output?
2: There is no summary output except for the number of tests succeeded and
failed:
   ====================
    2 of 3 tests failed
   (1 test was not run)
   ====================
   In parallel testing there is a (small) litany of summary data (PASS,
FAIL, XFAIL, XPASS, HARD, SKIP). Is this truncated output expected?
   

configure: WARNING: 'missing' script is too old or missing
make[2]: *** [check-TESTS] Error 1
make[1]: *** [check-am] Error 2
make: *** [check-recursive] Error 1

======================== configure.ac  =======================

##                                               -*- Autoconf -*-
## Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.

AC_PREREQ([2.69])
AC_INIT([test], [0.5],, test)
#AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([src/main.cpp])
AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([config.h])
AC_REVISION([$Revision: 0.1 $])
AC_COPYRIGHT([GPL])
AC_SUBST([PACKAGE_COPYRIGHT_YEAR], [2014])
AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED([PACKAGE_COPYRIGHT_YEAR], [$PACKAGE_COPYRIGHT_YEAR],
                   [The copyright year for this package])auto

# Checks for programs.
AC_PROG_CXX
AC_PROG_RANLIB

# Checks for header files.
AC_CHECK_HEADERS([stdlib.h])

AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile
                 src/Makefile])

# TAP test insertions
#AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([build-aux])
#AC_REQUIRE_AUX_FILE([tap-driver.sh])
#AC_PROG_AWK

# automake macro's - REQUIRED
AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign -Wall -Werror dist-xz])

AC_OUTPUT


======================= src/Makfile.am =======================
## Process this file with automake to produce Makefile.in

# select testing format
AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = serial-tests 

# Testing SLIP
check_SCRIPTS      = test1.sh test2.sh test3.sh test4.sh
TESTS              = $(check_SCRIPTS)

test1.sh:
        echo '#!/bin/bash'       > test1.sh
        echo "echo 'PASS: 0'"   >> test1.sh
        echo "exit 0"           >> test1.sh

test2.sh:
        echo '#!/bin/bash'       > test2.sh
        echo "echo 'FAIL: 2'"   >> test2.sh
        echo "exit 2"           >> test2.sh

test3.sh:
        echo '#!/bin/bash'       > test3.sh
        echo "echo 'SKIP: 77'"  >> test3.sh
        echo "exit 77"          >> test3.sh

test4.sh:
        echo '#!/bin/bash'       > test4.sh
        echo "echo 'HARD: 99'"  >> test4.sh
        echo "exit 99 "         >> test4.sh
        
        chmod +x test1.sh test2.sh test3.sh test4.sh


CLEANFILES         = $(test_SOURCES)


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