[PATCH 0/6] Testsuite: check the list of test scripts

[Stefano Lattarini]

Hello automakers.

This patch series is an amendment of my previously posted series on the
same issue -- see:
  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2009-12/msg00026.html

Since all the patches posted previously have been amended, I've decided
to re-propose the series in this fresh thread.

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While exploring and editing the automake testsuite, I came across 
three test scripts (acoutbs2.test, badopt.test, extra2.test) which 
were not listed in the $(TESTS) variable, and thus were never run.
In my opinion, this is a quite bad oversight.  In fact, one of the
tests (acoutbs2.test) consistently failed (luckily, as I soon found 
out, this failure was due to a bug in the test script, not in 
automake).

I'm going to to submit a set of six simple patches regarding the 
described problems.

The first two patches correct the oversight in the definition of 
$(TESTS), and implement a new maintainer-check to make it sure that no 
similar oversight will occur again in future.

The next two patches correct the spurious failure in `acoutbs2.test', and
(to play safe) also extend the tests `acoutbs.test' and `acoutbs2.test' a
bit.

The last two patches consist just of refactoring, and are aimed at
removing some code duplication which creeped in with the previous
patches (with the first patch, in fact).

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I will soon post the new patche series.

Regards,
    Stefano