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commit 10315b6dc8fe65f86a901ee9692271b2e8e4f541
Author: Stefano Lattarini <address@hidden>
Date:   Wed Jan 19 20:20:37 2011 +0100

    docs: automake testsuite doesn't use TESTS_ENVIRONMENT anymore
    
    * doc/automake.texi (Simple Tests): Do not claim Automake uses
    TESTS_ENVIRONMENT for the perl driver.  Instead, point to the
    parallel-tests driver.
    
    Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden>

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Summary of changes:
 ChangeLog         |    8 ++++++++
 doc/automake.texi |   14 ++++++++++----
 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index c26f1ab..31ff009 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+2011-01-19  Stefano Lattarini  <address@hidden>
+           Ralf Wildenhues  <address@hidden>
+
+       docs: automake testsuite doesn't use TESTS_ENVIRONMENT anymore
+       * doc/automake.texi (Simple Tests): Do not claim Automake uses
+       TESTS_ENVIRONMENT for the perl driver.  Instead, point to the
+       parallel-tests driver.
+
 2011-01-19  Ralf Wildenhues  <address@hidden>
 
        Allow _AM_DEPENDENCIES to be used later in configure.
diff --git a/doc/automake.texi b/doc/automake.texi
index 73c0e51..3d6a7b0 100644
--- a/doc/automake.texi
+++ b/doc/automake.texi
@@ -8596,13 +8596,19 @@ variables for the test run; the environment variable 
@env{srcdir} is
 set in the rule.  If all your test programs are scripts, you can also
 set @code{TESTS_ENVIRONMENT} to an invocation of the shell (e.g.
 @samp{$(SHELL) -x} can be useful for debugging the tests), or any other
-interpreter.  For instance the following setup is used by the Automake
-package to run four tests in Perl.
+interpreter.  For instance, the following setup may be used to run tests
+with Perl:
+
 @example
-TESTS_ENVIRONMENT = $(PERL) -Mstrict -I $(top_srcdir)/lib -w
-TESTS = Condition.pl DisjConditions.pl Version.pl Wrap.pl
+TESTS_ENVIRONMENT = $(PERL) -Mstrict -w
+TESTS = foo.pl bar.pl baz.pl
 @end example
 
+Note that the @option{parallel-tests} driver provides a more elegant
+way to achieve the same effect, freeing the @code{TESTS_ENVIRONMENT}
+variable for the user to override (@pxref{Simple Tests using
+parallel-tests}).
+
 
 @cindex Tests, expected failure
 @cindex Expected test failure


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