RE: Libtool stresstest: echo marker with loop variables

[Peter Ekberg]

* Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Thursday, September 15, 2005 12:13 CEST:
> Hi Peter,
> 
> * Peter Ekberg wrote on Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 09:45:55AM CEST:
> > 
> > Here's a patch that echoes a marker so that it is easier to
> > tell what is failing when stresstest.at fails.
> > 
> >     * tests/stresstest.at: Echo loop variables before
> >     each test to simplify error hunting.
> 
> I was hoping for a cleaner solution, but that's better than 
> what we have
> currently.
> 
> You may also want to check out
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2005-08/msg
> 00035.html
> and thread for more ideas.

Interesting, it seems I was beating a dead horse...

> Thinking out loud: one could do
>   : ${stresstest_static="-Wc, -static"}
> (the `-Wc,' just emulates an empty argument, to avoid introducing an
> extra `eval' here) and similarly for the other switches, so you could
> even limit a stresstest run by calling
>   stresstest_static=-static make check TESTS= 
> TESTSUITE_FLAGS='-v -d 22'
> or so.

That'll work nicely, thanks!

I can see that you are on top of all of my "complaints" on
stresstest.at. I will continue with a locally patched version
and will leave it up to you to improve it, the m4 magic and
autotest stuff is beyond me, really...

Cheers,
Peter