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Re: AT_line undefined when trying to use autotest
From: |
Christopher Hulbert |
Subject: |
Re: AT_line undefined when trying to use autotest |
Date: |
Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:49:32 -0500 |
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 6:29 PM, Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
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> According to Christopher Hulbert on 2/22/2008 2:18 PM:
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> | I'm looking into converting some existing test methods to use
> | autotest. In doing so I ran into a problem that autom4te complained
> | AT_line was undefined.
>
> You invoked AT_CHECK outside of a AT_SETUP/AT_CLEANUP pair. Hmm, maybe it
> would be nicer to make AT_CHECK issue a nicer warning if users make this
> mistake. But for now, I'll just do a documentation patch:
Thanks. I can't believe I missed that!
Chris
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> - --
> Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
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> Eric Blake address@hidden
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> From e53a6566d0935b22f83b733abaf6df1d1d662a48 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Eric Blake <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:23:48 -0700
> Subject: [PATCH] Improve documentation for writing autotest suites.
>
> * doc/autoconf.texi (Writing Testsuites) <AT_CHECK>: Mention that
> checks must live inside a test group.
> Reported by Christopher Hulbert.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>
> ---
> ChangeLog | 7 +++++++
> doc/autoconf.texi | 2 ++
> 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
> index fc0183b..c48ebce 100644
> --- a/ChangeLog
> +++ b/ChangeLog
> @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
> +2008-02-22 Eric Blake <address@hidden>
> +
> + Improve documentation for writing autotest suites.
> + * doc/autoconf.texi (Writing Testsuites) <AT_CHECK>: Mention that
> + checks must live inside a test group.
> + Reported by Christopher Hulbert.
> +
> 2008-02-21 Eric Blake <address@hidden>
>
> Sync git-version-gen from upstream.
> diff --git a/doc/autoconf.texi b/doc/autoconf.texi
> index 07c6699..ea5997a 100644
> --- a/doc/autoconf.texi
> +++ b/doc/autoconf.texi
> @@ -20227,6 +20227,8 @@ status 77, then the whole test group is skipped.
> Otherwise, if this test
> fails, run shell commands @var{run-if-fail} or, if this test passes, run
> shell
> commands @var{run-if-pass}.
>
> +This macro must be invoked in between @code{AT_SETUP} and @code{AT_CLEANUP}.
> +
> @c Previously, we had this:
> @c The @var{commands} @emph{must not} redirect the standard output, nor the
> @c standard error.
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> 1.5.4
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>