On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 05:17:00PM +0200, H . Merijn Brand wrote:
> Are you volunteering to work out my external conf idea?
Something like the attached?
[sorry, I've re-indented bits I edited with cperl's default indent style]
smoke.sh will need changing to pass in the config file as the first
argument. The default config I've attached isn't the same as your default.
Maybe we should supply several variations of config files, eg with and without
-Duse64bitall as I believe that's only relevant on platforms with 64 bit
pointers. (Does anyone other than Jarkko know if I'm correct in my belief?)
Nicholas Clark
mktest.pl
# This is a configuration file for the smoke tester.
# Lines starting with # are comments.
# Lines starting with = are section breaks. The rest of the line will be ignored
# Lines starting with / signify a pattern to substitute for in Policy.sh
# They don't count as a normal line
# This happens to be a section, but because it's *all* just blank lines
# (comments are ignored) this whole section will be ingored.
# Each normal line of a section defines a command line argument to Configure
# A blank line in a normal section means an argument of ""
# Each line from the first section is tried with each line of the second section
# with each line of the third section ...
# As this default configuration file has 4 sections each with 2 lines defining
# Configure arguments it will build 16 variations of perl.
==
-Dusethreads -Duseithreads -Dusereentrant
==
-Duse64bitint
==
-Duselongdouble
==
# The pattern must have leading and trailing '/' characters in this
# configuration file. The smoke tester will globally substitute this pattern
# with each Congfigure argument in this section (as well as passing them on
# the command line to Configure)
# This is usually used with the cflags parameter in Policy.sh, which defines
# flags to pass to the C compiler. The default Policy.sh contains the line
# "ccflags='-DDEBUGGING'" and this pattern will cause the value in the '' to
# be replaced with an empty string and then -DDEBUGGING.
# (It may seem a bit convaluted making a system to replace -DDEBUGGING with
# the same string -DDEBUGGING, but it means that a site's valid Policy.sh can
# be used for smoke testing)
#
# Hopefully it will not be a problem that the arguments are both substituted
# into cflags and passed on the commandline to Configure, as Configure will
# ignore arguments starting -D that it does not recognise.
#
# You can specify the same pattern in more than one section. In this case
# the substitution replacement will be all Configure arguments joined with
# spaces. This lets you have one section testing ("", "-DDEBUGGING"), a
# second testing ("", "-DCRIPPLED_CC") and have cflags set correctly for the
# 4 combinations.
/-DDEBUGGING/
-DDEBUGGING
