Re: patch 4: test for --help and --version (take 2)

[Bonzini]

> I don't understand why it ought to be different.  But anyway, as is,
> Automake lets you have a different one.

Setting up an installcheck is considerably harder than setting up a check
(TESTS and you are done) right now, unless you want to run the same suite.
Why should the poor user of the package run torture tests that require a lot
of memory and time when the developer should have made sure they pass?  The
only thing installcheck is interested is (as you said) in checking that *the
files are there*.  Of the 300+ tests in automake, I guess 20 would be needed
in installcheck to check that the .am snippets and .m4 files are copied
properly.

--help and --version tests, if added to installcheck, would also provide a
basic test that everything is fine WRT shared libraries, @INC and the like.
But it wouldn't be a minor patch, because all the machinery that Automake
provides would have to be duplicated for installcheck'ing.

> But rest assured I know make check: I run it several times every day :)

Me too :)

Paolo