Subject: Re: bug#26033: EXEEXT not exported to tests

From: Hans-Bernhard Bröker <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2017 21:46:16 +0100

Am 08.03.2017 um 20:52 schrieb Peter Selinger:

> The tests require this information, for
> example when they are shell scripts starting up executable programs
> to be tested.

Not really.  On the platforms where EXEEXT is non-empty, scripts do 
_not_ need to know about it to start executables, i.e.

Trying to test the behaviour of $(EXEEXT) on platforms where it's 
normally empty is, IMHO, futile.  This isn't an autoconf test whose 
result one should ever override.

> Although the test script
> check/mytest2.sh specified ../src/someprogram$EXEEXT, the EXEEXT
> setting was not exported to the script.

You don't need $(EXEEXT) to run the executable --- only to check the 
file, which tests won't have to do.