[lttng-dev] [PATCH 1/3] tests/lib/Makefile.am: Remove test_seek_empty_packet and test_seek_big_trace from SCRIPT_LIST

[mjeanson@efficios.com (Michael Jeanson)]

----- On Apr 28, 2016, at 12:44 PM, Simon Marchi simon.marchi at polymtl.ca wrote:
> 
> Ok thanks.
> 
> Just an idea: I find it quite cumbersome to add a new entry in
> configure.ac for each test script that we want autoconf to process (such
> as in patch 3/3).  I think it could be easier to have a single file
> (e.g. vars.sh) and have it contain definitions of various directories:
> 
>   srcdir=@srcdir@
>   top_srcdir=@top_srcdir@
>   abs_top_srcdir=@abs_top_srcdir@
>   builddir=@builddir@
>   ...
> 
> This way, you could have only a single generated file (vars.sh.in ->
> vars.sh), and each test script would just have to source that file to
> use the values.

As discussed on #lttng, here is the PR resulting from my updates to your
patches :

  https://github.com/efficios/babeltrace/pull/43


Concerning the include file, I'm not convinced it would be simpler, we would
end up with static scripts in the source dir including a generated file in
the builddir.