On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 7:50 AM, Michael Felt <mamf...@gmail.com> wrote:
> A couple of time I have gotten started with using test from Apache.
>
> Just to be clear about how I am starting I use svn to get the latest sources
> and have test and test/ApacheTest from
>
> ./svn/bin/jsvn checkout
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/test/framework/trunk
> /data/prj/apache/httpd/test
> echo Apache-Test starting
> ./svn/bin/jsvn checkout
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/perl/Apache-Test/trunk
> /data/prj/apache/httpd/test/Apache-Test

I only checkout
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/test/framework/trunk and my SVN
client fetches the other as an external (I think, it just works)

> 1) should Apache-Test be a subdirectory (does "test" recognize that and use
> it on some way - or is that a separate test intended only/mainly for
> mod_perl). Apache-Test as a project page does not say much.

It's for everything and it ends up a subdirectory

> 2) what are the vital lines to look for in .../test/t/logs/error_log (or
> what is the difference between :alert and :error lines)?

It's just a severity. Alert is more severe than error.  You would only
check the error_log if you were chasing down a failed test

(you can also ./testall -v foo/bar.t to sometimes get more info)

-- 
Eric Covener
cove...@gmail.com

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