Hello there,
* Roberto Bagnara wrote on Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 09:13:16PM CEST:
Instead, what I would like to have is to only say
test1_SOURCES = test1.cc test2_SOURCES = test2.cc ...
and then achieve the effect of (sorry for the pseudo-code)
for flags in $FLAGS_CHOICES do make check with CXXFLAGS="$flags" force recompilation at the next iteration (e.g., by erasing executables) done
How can I best obtain this effect without giving up (too many of) the advantages offered by Automake?
I believe something along these lines may be achieved by
| check_SCRIPTS = runtests | check_PROGRAMS = test1 test2 | test1_SOURCES = test1.cc | test2_SOURCES = test2.cc | TESTS = $(check_SCRIPTS) | my-check-clean: | rm -f $(check_PROGRAMS) *.o *.obj
in Makefile.am, and your pseudo code in `./runtests': for flags in $FLAGS_CHOICES do make check CXXFLAGS="$flags" TESTS='test1 test2' make my-check-clean # to force recompilation at the next iteration done
Surely the object removal is a bit of a hack, and should be adapted unless your test suite lives in its own directory/Makefile.am. I haven't tested this, by the way; please complain if it doesn't work. :)
If you want to go much further, you either end up creating more complex shell scripts, or using one of the more advanced test suite creation tools: Autoconf's Autotest, DejaGNU, ...
Cheers, Ralf