Merge branch 'maint'

[platform/upstream/automake.git] / Makefile.am

diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index 8e66894..a5332d3 100644 (file)
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -426,6 +426,41 @@ check-no-repeated-test-name:
 check-local: check-no-repeated-test-name
 .PHONY: check-no-repeated-test-name
 
+# Check that our test cases are syntactically correct.
+# See automake bug#11898.
+check-tests-syntax:
+       @st=0; \
+       err () { echo "$@: $$*" >&2; st=1; }; \
+## The user might do something like "make check TESTS=t/foo" or
+## "make check TESTS_LOGS=t/foo.log" and expect (say) the test
+## 't/foo.sh' to be run; this has worked well until today, and
+## we want to continue supporting this use case.
+       bases=`for log in : $(TEST_LOGS); do echo $$log; done \
+         | sed -e '/^:$$/d' -e 's/\.log$$//'`; \
+       for bas in $$bases; do \
+         for suf in sh tap pl; do \
+           tst=$$bas.$$suf; \
+## Emulate VPATH search.
+           if test -f $$tst; then \
+             break; \
+           elif test -f $(srcdir)/$$tst; then \
+             tst=$(srcdir)/$$tst; \
+             break; \
+           else \
+             tst=''; \
+           fi; \
+         done; \
+         test -n "$$tst" || err "couldn't find test '$$bas'"; \
+## Don't check that perl tests are valid shell scripts!
+         test $$suf = pl && continue; \
+         $(AM_V_P) && echo " $(AM_TEST_RUNNER_SHELL) -n $$tst"; \
+         $(AM_TEST_RUNNER_SHELL) -n "$$tst" \
+           || err "test '$$tst' syntactically invalid"; \
+       done; \
+       exit $$st
+check-local: check-tests-syntax
+.PHONY: check-tests-syntax
+
 ## Checking the list of tests.
 test_subdirs = t t/pm t/perf contrib/t
 include $(srcdir)/t/CheckListOfTests.am