Re: testsuite: distributed depending on non-distributed

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Eric,

* Eric Blake wrote on Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 05:44:16PM CEST:
> 
> With that fixed, and this additional patch, make distcheck works again
> when TESTSUITEFLAGS is set to avoid the failing defn test (and on cygwin,
> [...])

FWIW, I don't get a distcheck pass: installcheck fails all module
related tests for me on GNU/Linux, because the `modtest' module
is not found.  Also, test 24 (--debug) fails; see below.

Cheers,
Ralf

#                             -*- compilation -*-
24. options.at:82: testing ...
../../tests/options.at:93: m4 -b -d -tlen in < /dev/null
../../tests/options.at:119: m4 -b -d -dV in < /dev/null
--- -   2006-09-12 10:04:50.535090000 +0200
+++ /tmp/m4/build/m4-1.9a/_build/tests/testsuite.dir/at-stderr       2006-09-12 
10:04:50.000000000 +0200
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-m4debug: module m4: opening file
+m4debug: module m4: opening file `m4.so'
 m4debug: module m4: init hook called
 m4debug: module m4: opened
 m4debug: module m4: builtins loaded
-m4debug: module gnu: opening file
+m4debug: module gnu: opening file `gnu.so'
 m4debug: module gnu: opened
 m4debug: module gnu: builtins loaded
 m4debug: module gnu: macros loaded
24. options.at:82: 24. --debug (options.at:82): FAILED (options.at:119)

#                             -*- compilation -*-
41. modules.at:27: testing frozen.m4f...
../../tests/modules.at:29: if test "x$DYNAMIC_MODULES" = xno ; then
  echo Dynamic module support not detected, skipping this test.
  exit 77
fi
../../tests/modules.at:54: m4 -b -d -m load frozen.m4 unfrozen.m4 < /dev/null
stderr:
m4:frozen.m4:5: cannot open module `modtest': file not found
stdout:
../../tests/modules.at:54: exit code was 1, expected 0
41. modules.at:27: 41. Freezing modules (modules.at:27): FAILED (modules.at:54)

#                             -*- compilation -*-
42. modules.at:113: testing ...
../../tests/modules.at:113: if test "x$DYNAMIC_MODULES" = xno ; then
  echo Dynamic module support not detected, skipping this test.
  exit 77
fi
../../tests/modules.at:113: test -f "$abs_top_builddir/modules/modtest.la" || 
exit 77
../../tests/modules.at:113:  m4 -m load -d input.m4 -M $top_buildpath/modules
--- -   2006-09-12 10:04:51.484510000 +0200
+++ /tmp/m4/build/m4-1.9a/_build/tests/testsuite.dir/at-stderr       2006-09-12 
10:04:51.000000000 +0200
@@ -1,5 +1,2 @@
-Test module loaded.
-test:  <test>
-Test module unloaded.
-m4:input.m4:6: Warning: dumpdef: undefined macro `test'
+m4:input.m4:1: cannot open module `modtest': file not found

--- -   2006-09-12 10:04:51.488830000 +0200
+++ /tmp/m4/build/m4-1.9a/_build/tests/testsuite.dir/at-stdout       2006-09-12 
10:04:51.000000000 +0200
@@ -1,7 +1 @@

-Test module called.
-Dumpdef: .
-
-test
-Dumpdef: .
-
../../tests/modules.at:113: exit code was 1, expected 0
42. modules.at:113: 42. --module-directory: absolute path (modules.at:113): 
FAILED (modules.at:113)

#                             -*- compilation -*-
43. modules.at:116: testing ...
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