Re: echo arbitrary text in autotest?

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Daily, Jeff A wrote on Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 08:17:53PM CET:
> I want to dump some environment variables near the top of my tests
> suite since these variables affect my tests.  In my local.at file I
> have:
> AT_INIT
> AS_ECHO(["tests use seq $NP_START $NP_INC $NP_STOP"])
> 
> But it doesn't make it into my suite script at all.  I would like for
> the echo to go to both stdout and the suite.log file.  How can I do
> this?

I think this should work (untested):

m4_divert_push([PREPARE_TESTS])dnl
AS_ECHO(["tests use seq $NP_START $NP_INC $NP_STOP"])
AS_ECHO(["tests use seq $NP_START $NP_INC $NP_STOP"]) >&AS_MESSAGE_LOG_FD
m4_divert_pop([PREPARE_TESTS])dnl

Cheers,
Ralf