On 28 Aug 2006, at 23:50, Daniel Macks wrote: > On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 05:42:08PM -0400, Chris Zubrzycki wrote: >> On Aug 28, 2006, at 5:22 PM, Neil Tiffin wrote: >> >>> As a package maintainer I would like to see it invoked with >>> option "- >>> T" like "fink -KkT rebuild <package_name>." Once I figure out how to >>> run the tests and put the instructions in the .info file, I can then >>> easily run them every time the package is upgraded. This would be a >>> lot simpler than having to go to the directory and figure out how to >>> tun the test each time (even though it is usually "make test", >>> sometimes there is other stuff that is required. > > Might make sense for this to be controlled by the existing -m > (maintainer-mode build) flag. > >> As a maintainer it will be up to you to figure out what tests are >> available and which ones to run, and any extra steps that need to be >> done. Also, how will the tests be reported? Not all tests may exit >> with a non-zero status, it may just report modules built, and what if >> one didn't build for some reason, but the build finished ok? How will >> the output be parsed? > > There are also several different standards for even what command runs > the tests. I guess 'make check' is the autotools standard, but lots of > auto*-using packagers don't know that and have custom-written 'make > test'. And the perl world long ago standardized on 'make test' (and we > have a specific NoPerlTests flag to control that). Plus who knows what > other custom variants there are...have to cd somewhere first? > > Given the variety of commands needed to run tests and the different > ways those results might need to be interpretted and the desire to be > able to have this togglalble at the level of fink itself, it sounds > like we're headed for a TestScript or MaintainerScript field.
Looking just at a couple of pkgs (in my exp dir), I see that running tests involves for a number of them, in addition to the usual make [-i] [- k] check or the like, also additional %c _ as, just grepping from the ConfigureParams in that dir : --enable-compile-warnings=yes --enable-maintainer-mode --enable-test --enable-test-component=yes --enable-tests so it seems a flag ( "-m" _ which I didn't know...,; or whatever) might be more convenient than an additional field... JF Mertens ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
