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Re: Testsuite as a package (was: Re: Was that the sound of a snapshotgoing off?)
- From: Ronald Landheer-Cieslak <ronald at landheer dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 10:41:43 +0100 (CET)
- Subject: Re: Testsuite as a package (was: Re: Was that the sound of a snapshotgoing off?)
On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote:
[snipped Igor's reply - already replied]
> A few extra observations: You can't just run the testsuite on the
> installed version of cygwin. It is meant to be run against
> winsup/new-cygwin1.dll. So how do you work around that? Extract the
> source into some directory, create a build directory, configure it, and
> then
> cd i686-pc-cygwin/winsup
> cp /bin/cygwin1.dll cygwin/new-cygwin1.dll
> cp -p /lib/libcygwin.a cygwin/new-libcygwin.a
> cp -p /lib/libcygwin.a cygwin/libcygwin.a
> cd testsuite
> make check
OK, I'll admit I've never tried that (I haven't had the time and/or will
to look into it further than just "darn, doesn't work - oh well..".
> However, as was pointed out, I, and others are already running the test
> suite. I want to get real world testing since the test suite doesn't
> test everything.
And, as I pointed out, you don't have any of my machines. Of course the
testsuite does not test everything, but I would be surprised if it doesn't
test anything at all.
But hey, if you don't think it'll be useful, I won't insist :)
rlc
BTW: I will run the testsuite against the latest snapshot and see if I get
any regressions, of course - I'll let you know :p
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