Re: autotest scripts (Autom4te)

[Derek Robert Price]

Grzegorz Jakacki wrote:

> On Sat, 22 Mar 2003, Derek Robert Price wrote:
>
>  
>
> > Hey,
> >
> > I'm noticing that when Autom4te generates autotest scripts, only the
> > macros in testsuite.at are output.  In other words, unlike configure.ac
> > conversion, arbitrary shell snippets are not in the final generated file.
> >
> > Is there a good reason for this?  Could I change a single switch in
> > autom4te.in or autom4te.cfg to alter this behavior?
> >    
>
> I think you can include snippets definitions with 'm4_include'. Is this
> what you are looking for?
>  

Not quite.  Numerous calls to m4_include for short snippets of shell 
that need to be stored in seperate files seems needlessly complicated 
and cluttered for what I had in mind.  So does calls to m4_define 
followed by calls to the functions.

Is there a good reason why autotest script generation doesn't behave 
this way and configure generation does?

I was hoping that shell code could just be included in the toplevel 
autotest file like it is with configure.ac.  I thought I understood that 
autom4te was the same script called for configure generation by autoconf 
and was hoping someone might be able to direct me to a simple switch I 
could pass in or hack before I had to read through the whole source file 
and figure it out myself.

Derek

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