From: Jim Meyering Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 08:57:30 +0000 (+0100) Subject: Improve testsuite's --help output. X-Git-Tag: v2.64~48 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=73d519a40a02f441661189755b288ee79bfd4203;p=thirdparty%2Fautoconf.git Improve testsuite's --help output. * lib/autotest/general.m4: Correct the example in ./testsuite --help. Improve wording. --- diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 45cc4b4a2..ddac2578b 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +2009-06-06 Jim Meyering + + Improve testsuite --help + * lib/autotest/general.m4: Correct the example in ./testsuite --help. + Improve wording. + 2009-06-06 Eric Blake Document fallback behavior of AC_PROG_LEX. diff --git a/lib/autotest/general.m4 b/lib/autotest/general.m4 index ce653978d..ddc2270a0 100644 --- a/lib/autotest/general.m4 +++ b/lib/autotest/general.m4 @@ -667,16 +667,17 @@ Usage: $[0] [[OPTION]... [VARIABLE=VALUE]... [TESTS]] Run all the tests, or the selected TESTS, given by numeric ranges, and save a detailed log file. Upon failure, create debugging scripts. -You should not change environment variables unless explicitly passed -as command line arguments. Set \`AUTOTEST_PATH' to select the executables +Do not change environment variables directly. Instead, set them via +command line arguments. Set \`AUTOTEST_PATH' to select the executables to exercise. Each relative directory is expanded as build and source -directories relatively to the top level of this distribution. E.g., +directories relative to the top level of this distribution. +E.g., from within the build directory /tmp/foo-1.0, invoking this: $ $[0] AUTOTEST_PATH=bin -possibly amounts into +is equivalent to the following, assuming the source directory is /src/foo-1.0: - PATH=/tmp/foo-1.0/bin:/src/foo-1.0/bin:\$PATH + PATH=/tmp/foo-1.0/bin:/src/foo-1.0/bin:\$PATH $[0] _ATEOF m4_divert_pop([HELP])dnl m4_divert_push([HELP_MODES])dnl