parallel one. For those tests that are *not* meant to work with the
parallel testsuite harness at all (these should be very very few),
set the shell variable 'am_serial_tests' to "yes" before including
- ./defs.
+ test-init.sh.
-* Some tests in the Automake testsuite are auto-generated; those tests
- might have custom extensions, but their basename (that is, with such
- extension stripped) is expected to end with "-w" string, optionally
- followed by decimal digits. For example, the name of a valid
- auto-generated test can be 'color-w.sh' or 'tap-signal-w09.tap'.
+* Some tests in the Automake-NG testsuite are auto-generated; those
+ tests might have custom extensions, but their basename (that is,
+ with such extension stripped) is expected to end with "-w" string,
+ optionally followed by decimal digits. For example, the name of a
+ valid auto-generated test can be 'color-w.sh' or 'tap-signal-w09.tap'.
Please don't name hand-written tests in a way that could cause them
- to be confused with auto-generated tests; for example, 'u-v-w.sh'
- or 'option-w0.tap' are *not* valid name for hand-written tests.
+ to be confused with auto-generated tests; for example, 'u-v-w.sh' or
+ 'option-w0.tap' are *not* valid name for hand-written tests.
- * ./defs brings in some commonly required files, and sets a skeleton
- configure.ac. If possible, append to this file. In some cases
- you'll have to overwrite it, but this should be the exception. Note
- that configure.ac registers Makefile.in but do not output anything by
+ * test-init.sh brings in some commonly required files, and sets a skeleton
+ configure.ac. If possible, append to this file. In some cases you'll
+ have to overwrite it, but this should be the exception. Note that
+ configure.ac registers Makefile.in but do not output anything by
default. If you need ./configure to create Makefile, append AC_OUTPUT
- to configure.ac. In case you don't want ./defs to pre-populate your
- test directory (which is a rare occurrence), set the 'am_create_testdir'
- shell variable to "empty" before sourcing ./defs.
+ to configure.ac. In case you don't want your test directory to be
+ pre-populate by test-init.sh (this should be a rare occurrence), set
+ the 'am_create_testdir' shell variable to "empty" before sourcing
+ test-init.sh.
* By default, the testcases are run with the errexit shell flag on,
to make it easier to catch failures you might not have thought of.