[m-dev.] testing samples

[Fergus Henderson]

On 18-Nov-2000, Tyson Dowd <trd at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> > 4.  Testing on extras and samples:
> > 
> > 	Zoltan suggested that we need a standard way of testing the
> > 	extras and samples. Fergus suggested that we enforce a rule that
> > 	each Mmakefile contain a `check' target. It was pointed out that
> > 	it can be quite difficult to test some of the things in extras
> > 	such as the Tcl/Tk interface. Zoltan suggested that we just test them
> > 	by compiling to C code.
> 
> I have already added test cases for the samples.  Check out the "tests"
> subdir.

The `runtests' script looks OK, but the `Mmakefile' there is broken.
I'll fix it.

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