Usually (when dealing with autotools) test build and run automatically on
$ make check
This is not the case with this source code and it would be great if it did. The reason for this is that tests can be run from the top build directory only by invoking "make check". There are thus no reason to invoke the different tests manually. This is reduces the work for maintainers.
I have attached a patch that will build and run all tests on "make check".