From: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 15:58:45 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: test defs: allow overriding of `$me'
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test defs: allow overriding of `$me'

* tests/defs.in ($me): Allow overriding by the including test
script.  Add some explicative comments.
---

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index a126dc2fd..bdb49dbaa 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2011-04-17  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+	test defs: allow overriding of `$me'
+	* tests/defs.in ($me): Allow overriding by the including test
+	script.  Add some explicative comments.
+
 2011-04-17  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
 
 	depcomp tests: don't reject slower dependency extractors
diff --git a/tests/defs.in b/tests/defs.in
index cf07a4eeb..38bb4e5b4 100644
--- a/tests/defs.in
+++ b/tests/defs.in
@@ -64,7 +64,12 @@ test -f "$srcdir/defs.in" || {
    exit 1
 }
 
-me=`echo "$0" | sed -e 's,.*[\\/],,;s/\.test$//'`
+# The name of the current test (without the `.test' suffix).
+# Test scripts can override it if they need to (but this should
+# be done carefully, and *before* including ./defs).
+if test -z "$me"; then
+  me=`echo "$0" | sed -e 's,.*[\\/],,;s/\.test$//'`
+fi
 
 # This might be used in testcases checking distribution-related features.
 # Test scripts are free to override this if they need to.