From: Stefano Lattarini Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 19:03:40 +0000 (+0200) Subject: docs: issues with configure substitutions in TESTS X-Git-Tag: v1.13.1d~19^3 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=526df875677f9e67b86c89ad1c611a77cb924662;p=thirdparty%2Fautomake.git docs: issues with configure substitutions in TESTS Motivated by automake bug#14019. * doc/automake.texi: Currently, when the parallel test harness is in use, configure substitutions in TESTS definitions can only work if they expand to tests that ends with a suffix listed in TEST_EXTENSIONS. Document this limitation. Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini --- diff --git a/doc/automake.texi b/doc/automake.texi index d3aefb5a2..e52cc3afe 100644 --- a/doc/automake.texi +++ b/doc/automake.texi @@ -9089,6 +9089,12 @@ followed by any number of alphabetic characters. For example, @samp{.sh}, @samp{.T} and @samp{.t1} are valid extensions, while @samp{.x-y}, @samp{.6c} and @samp{.t.1} are not. +@cindex Configure substitutions in @code{TESTS} +It is important to note that, due to current limitations (unlikely to be +lifted), configure substitutions in the definition of @code{TESTS} can +only work if they will expand to a list of tests that have a suffix listed +in @code{TEST_EXTENSIONS}. + @vindex _LOG_COMPILE @vindex _LOG_COMPILER @vindex _LOG_FLAGS