I have sent patches to GNU Autoconf to add new macros for testing Erlang modules, include files, and functions: AC_ERLANG_CHECK_MOD, AC_ERLANG_CHECK_HEADER,AC_ERLANG_CHECK_LIB_HEADER, and AC_ERLANG_CHECK_FUNC. I also sent a patch to fix the AC_RUN_IFELSE macro which executes Erlang test code, so that this macro cleanly fails if the code doesn’t compile, and another patch to fix the … [Read more…]
GNU Autotest is GNU Autoconf’s unit testing tool, and is very generic, portable and simple. Autotest is therefore well suited to run tests using other testing tools, such as EUnit (Erlang/OTP’s unit testing tool), JUnit, etc. I just added to GNU Autoconf the AT_CHECK_EUNIT macro to run EUnit unit tests in Autotest testsuites. It is the … [Read more…]
I have restarted actively maintaining the Erlang support in GNU Autoconf. Autoconf version 2.64 has been released on July 26th, which contains a few changes to its Erlang support. Autoconf had a bug breaking the AC_ERLANG_CHECK_LIB macro, between versions 2.61a and 2.63, making those versions of Autoconf practically unusable for Erlang projects. This bug was … [Read more…]