Bundling Gnulib tests with an application

Bundling Gnulib tests with an application

[Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen]

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When an application bundles Gnulib tests in its distribution, say in a
folder named gnulib-tests, and has its own suite of Automake tests in the
folder tests, the console output by Automake when running

make check

is suboptimal because it will print something like

====================================
Testsuite summary for MyProgram 1.0
====================================

twice, once when processing the tests folder and once when processing the
gnulib-tests folder.

Is there a way to change the title that is printed by Automake?

Marc

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Re: Bundling Gnulib tests with an application

[Bruno Haible]

Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen wrote:
> When an application bundles Gnulib tests in its distribution, say in a
> folder named gnulib-tests, and has its own suite of Automake tests in the
> folder tests, the console output by Automake when running
> 
> make check
> 
> is suboptimal because it will print something like
> 
> ====================================
> Testsuite summary for MyProgram 1.0
> ====================================
> 
> twice, once when processing the tests folder and once when processing the
> gnulib-tests folder.
> 
> Is there a way to change the title that is printed by Automake?

I'm not aware of a documented way to change this.

Nevertheless, it is probably easy to do: When you look at the generated
Makefile.in and search for the string 'summary for', you will see that
it gets the text that follows it from a Makefile variable. This Makefile
variable gets its default value from the configure file. But if you
set a value in Makefile.am, it will override the value from the configure
file - locally in that Makefile only.

Bruno

Re: Bundling Gnulib tests with an application

[Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen]

Am So., 31. Mai 2020 um 21:51 Uhr schrieb Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>:

> I'm not aware of a documented way to change this.
>
> Nevertheless, it is probably easy to do: When you look at the generated
> Makefile.in and search for the string 'summary for', you will see that
> it gets the text that follows it from a Makefile variable. This Makefile
> variable gets its default value from the configure file. But if you
> set a value in Makefile.am, it will override the value from the configure
> file - locally in that Makefile only.

That's a great tip, thank you. And, maybe, it is a good idea to
automatically wire this into the test suite generated by Gnulib.