>>> This patch is wrong, since the goal of ./testsuite is to be able to be
>>> run easily by hand. The functionality of TESTS_ENVIRONMENT you are
>>> looking for is in atlocal. If GMP does not work, dig in there.
>> Ah yes. At some point atlocal stopped being generated. I am
>> reverting this patch in favour of adding `tests/atlocal' to
>> AC_CONFIG_FILES. Is that the right way to do things?
> Something is weird in here. This should be done by
> AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR([tests]). That's what the doc says, but the code no
> longer does this. Autoconf and Bison include their own
> AC_CONFIG_FILES for atlocal. I don't know why, but I'm in favor of
> restoring the documented behavior. But I guess that in the meanwhile
> M4 ought to have its AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR([tests/atlocal]), indeed.
I was wrong, and reading an old documentation. I found the following
in the ChangeLog. Sorry.
Revision 1.10 / (download) - annotate - [select for diffs] , Wed Oct 31
10:40:13 2001 UTC (23 months ago) by akim
CVS Tags: AUTOCONF-2_52f
Changes since 1.9: +0 -4 lines
Diff to previous 1.9 (colored)
* lib/autoconf/autotest.m4 (AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR): Do not
AC_CONFIG_FILES(atlocal) as it means a file atlocal.in *must* be
provided, while it is optional.
* configure.ac: Adjust.