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15.5 DejaGnu Tests
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If ‘dejagnu’ (https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/dejagnu/) appears in
‘AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS’, then a ‘dejagnu’-based test suite is assumed.  The
variable ‘DEJATOOL’ is a list of names that are passed, one at a time,
as the ‘--tool’ argument to ‘runtest’ invocations; it defaults to the
name of the package.

   The variable ‘RUNTESTDEFAULTFLAGS’ holds the ‘--tool’ and ‘--srcdir’
flags that are passed to dejagnu by default; this can be overridden if
necessary.

   The variables ‘EXPECT’ and ‘RUNTEST’ can also be overridden to
provide project-specific values.  For instance, you will need to do this
if you are testing a compiler toolchain, because the default values do
not take into account host and target names.

   The contents of the variable ‘RUNTESTFLAGS’ are passed to the
‘runtest’ invocation.  This is considered a “user variable” (Note: User
Variables).  If you need to set ‘runtest’ flags in ‘Makefile.am’, you
can use ‘AM_RUNTESTFLAGS’ instead.

   Automake will generate rules to create a local ‘site.exp’ file,
defining various variables detected by ‘configure’.  This file is
automatically read by DejaGnu.  It is OK for the user of a package to
edit this file in order to tune the test suite.  However this is not the
place where the test suite author should define new variables: this
should be done elsewhere in the real test suite code.  Especially,
‘site.exp’ should not be distributed.

   Still, if the package author has legitimate reasons to extend
‘site.exp’ at ‘make’ time, he can do so by defining the variable
‘EXTRA_DEJAGNU_SITE_CONFIG’; the files listed there will be considered
‘site.exp’ prerequisites, and their content will be appended to it (in
the same order in which they appear in ‘EXTRA_DEJAGNU_SITE_CONFIG’).
Note that files are _not_ distributed by default.

   For more information regarding DejaGnu test suites, see Note:
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