Check that symlinks are resolved by `make dist'.

* tests/distlinks.test: New test.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
Suggested by observations from Ralf Wildenhues.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 5a59f65..8995ade 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2010-04-11  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       Add tests checking that symlinks are resolved by `make dist'.
+       * tests/distlinks.test: New test.
+       * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Updated accordingly.
+       Suggested by observations from Ralf Wildenhues.
+
 2010-04-11  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
 
        Use -9 for maximum xz compression with dist-xz.

diff --git a/tests/Makefile.am b/tests/Makefile.am
index e721e66..7e14b1c 100644 (file)
--- a/tests/Makefile.am
+++ b/tests/Makefile.am
@@ -275,6 +275,7 @@ distcom5.test \
 distcom6.test \
 distcom7.test \
 distdir.test \
+distlinks.test \
 distname.test \
 dollar.test \
 dollarvar.test \

diff --git a/tests/Makefile.in b/tests/Makefile.in
index 682e137..648966f 100644 (file)
--- a/tests/Makefile.in
+++ b/tests/Makefile.in
@@ -512,6 +512,7 @@ distcom5.test \
 distcom6.test \
 distcom7.test \
 distdir.test \
+distlinks.test \
 distname.test \
 dollar.test \
 dollarvar.test \

diff --git a/tests/distlinks.test b/tests/distlinks.test
new file mode 100755 (executable)
index 0000000..41a783d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/distlinks.test
@@ -0,0 +1,73 @@
+#! /bin/sh
+# Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
+# any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+# Check that distributed symlinks in the source tree will be expanded
+# as regular files in $(distdir).
+
+. ./defs || Exit 1
+
+set -e
+
+echo text > file
+
+ln -s file lnk || {
+  echo "$me: cannot create symlinks to files" >&2
+  Exit 77
+}
+
+mkdir A
+mkdir B
+echo aaa > A/aaa
+cd B
+ln -s ../A/aaa bbb
+cd ..
+
+echo FooBarBaz > foo
+
+ln -s foo  bar1
+ln -s bar1 bar2
+ln -s bar2 bar3
+
+ln -s "`pwd`/foo" quux
+
+echo AC_OUTPUT >>configure.in
+
+echo "me = $me" > Makefile.am  # for better failure messages
+cat >> Makefile.am << 'END'
+EXTRA_DIST = lnk B/bbb bar1 bar2 bar3 quux
+.PHONY: test
+test: distdir
+       ls -l $(distdir) $(distdir)/B
+       fail() { echo "$(me): $$*" >&2; e=1; }; \
+       e=0; \
+       set file lnk A/aaa B/bbb foo quux foo bar1 foo bar2 foo bar3; \
+       while test $$# -ge 2; do \
+         file=$$1; shift; link=$(distdir)/$$1; shift; \
+         test -f $$link || fail "$$link is not a regular file"; \
+         test ! -h $$link || fail "$$link is a symlink"; \
+         diff $$file $$link || fail "$$link differs from $$file"; \
+       done; \
+       exit $$e;
+END
+
+ls -l . A B
+
+$ACLOCAL
+$AUTOCONF
+$AUTOMAKE
+
+./configure
+$MAKE test