Re: more separation of tests

[Stefano Lattarini]

Hi Patrice.

On 11/16/2012 09:52 PM, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 07:39:07PM +0000, Karl Berry wrote:
>> Patrice,
>>
>> I'm not sure how feasible it is, but given the new parallel test
>> harness, I think it would be very nice if the tp tests could be split up
>> a bit more at the Automake level.  I wondered if each major test
>> directory (formatting, htmlxref, etc.) could be a separate Automake
>> test.  wdyt?
> 
> Indeed.  And maybe even all the small tests in t/*.t could easily be 
> directly run by automake since the format they use is the tap format
> when run by perl.  If I understood well, srcdir cannot be in TESTS, so
> simply putting t/*.t in TESTS will break out of source installation,
> but a simple script could easily be setup automatically for each t/*.t.
> 
Actually, both the new (parallel) and old (serial) testsuite harnesses
automatically look both in $(builddir) and $(srcdir) for tests, so no
extra involution is required to support out-of-source builds.

Regards,
  Stefano