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
include $(srcdir)/t/CheckListOfTests.am
am_create_testdir=no
. ./defs || exit 99
-plan_ 34
+plan_ 32
# This test becomes more cumbersome if we keep the 'errexit' shell flag
# set. And removing it is no big deal, as this test is a TAP-based one,
$AM_TEST_RUNNER_SHELL -c "$init ./Makefile; :" "$dummy_test_script"
command_ok_ "permission denied" test $? -gt 0
-: Syntax errors in the test code.
-$AM_TEST_RUNNER_SHELL -c "$init if :; then" "$dummy_test_script"
-command_ok_ "syntax error 1" test $? -gt 0
-$AM_TEST_RUNNER_SHELL -c "$init true ( true )" "$dummy_test_script"
-command_ok_ "syntax error 2" test $? -gt 0
-
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