Re: AT_CHECK within for loop

[Joel E. Denny]

On Fri, 28 Jan 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:

> * Joel E. Denny wrote on Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 08:06:38PM CET:
> > A way to get the best of both worlds might be to permit shell functions 
> > containing AT_CHECK to be defined outside of AT_SETUP.  I believe that is 
> > not possible with autotest now, and I have no idea if it's feasible to 
> > implement.
> 
> That is possible right now, either in atlocal.in or in PREPARE_TESTS
> diversions:
> 
> m4_divert_push([PREPARE_TESTS])dnl
> function_defined_once ()
> {
>   ...
> }
> m4_divert_pop([PREPARE_TESTS])dnl

That's interesting, and I wasn't aware of it.  However, when I tried 
expanding AT_CHECK inside that function, autotest gave the usual 
complaint:

  tmp.at:4: error: AT_CHECK: missing AT_SETUP detected

I'm running Autoconf 2.65.  Does that matter?