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16.4 Making testsuite Scripts

For putting Autotest into movement, you need some configuration and Makefile machinery. We recommend, at least if your package uses deep or shallow hierarchies, that you use `tests/' as the name of the directory holding all your tests and their `Makefile'. Here is a check list of things to do.

With Automake, here is a minimal example about how to link `make check' with a validation suite.

 
EXTRA_DIST = testsuite.at testsuite
TESTSUITE = $(srcdir)/testsuite
check-local: atconfig atlocal $(TESTSUITE)
        $(SHELL) $(TESTSUITE)

AUTOM4TE = autom4te
AUTOTEST = $(AUTOM4TE) --language=autotest
$(TESTSUITE): $(srcdir)/testsuite.at
        $(AUTOTEST) -I $(srcdir) $.at -o $.tmp
        mv $.tmp $

You might want to list explicitly the dependencies, i.e., the list of the files `testsuite.at' includes.

With strict Autoconf, you might need to add lines inspired from the following:

 
subdir = tests

atconfig: $(top_builddir)/config.status
	cd $(top_builddir) && \
           $(SHELL) ./config.status $(subdir)/$

atlocal: $(srcdir)/atlocal.in $(top_builddir)/config.status
	cd $(top_builddir) && \
           $(SHELL) ./config.status $(subdir)/$

and manage to have `atconfig.in' and $(EXTRA_DIST) distributed.



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