There should be a Makefile.am in the main test directory (testsuite) and each of its sub-directories.

If dejagnu appears in AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS, then automake will assume a DejaGnu based test system. This will be run when the user uses make check.

The tests must pick up the DEJAGNU environment variable. So it should be exported from the Makefile.am in the main test directory.

The tool(s) must be named. This is done by setting the DEJATOOL variable. If there are multiple tools to be tested, specify them all with DEJATOOL

The following shows part of a Makefile.am for a typical test main directory.

SUBDIRS = config         \
          lib            \
          libsim.tests   \
          or1ksim.tests  \
          test-code      \
          test-code-or1k

EXTRA_DIST = global-conf.exp

# Setup for DejaGNU
AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS    = dejagnu

export DEJAGNU

DEJATOOL            = libsim  \
                      or1ksim
	

Note the use of EXTRA_DIST to specify that the global configuration file must be added to the distribution. In this example there is a board specific configuration directory (config), an expect test directory for each of two tools (libsim.tests and or1ksim.tests) and two directories of test program code (test-code and test-code-or1k).

Makefile.am files are needed in the various config and expect test directories, but only to ensure their code is added to the distribution. There is nothing that needs compiling. For example, the Makefile.am in the tool specific configuration directory (lib) is as follows.

# Just distribute this stuff
EXTRA_DIST = libsim.exp  \
             or1ksim.exp