Autotools actually has some built-in test framework support too. A Makefile.am can have one or more programs marked as TEST, which will run when `make check` is

Autotools actually has some built-in test framework support too. A Makefile.am can have one or more programs marked as TEST, which will run when `make check` is executed. Depending on how you set it up, Automake knows how to use the TAP protocol to collect the pass/fail from your tests. You can also run `make distcheck` to generate a source tarball, extract/build the tarball in isolation, and run `make check` on the result. A very handy way to make sure that you've packaged everything correctly, and everything builds/tests OK when executed out-of-tree.