Ovid wrote in perl.qa : > In trying to get runtests to run against the core Perl test suite on a > freshly built download, I'm having a few difficulties. 'make test' says > this: > > u=5.02 s=4.72 cu=297.54 cs=98.73 scripts=934 tests=117325 > > This implies to me that we have 934 .t files in t/, lib/ and ext/. > > 'runtests' says this: > > Files=1002, Tests=104613, 963 wallclock secs (269.56 cusr + 78.56 csys = > 348.12 CPU) > > Fewer tests, but more test files? > > 'find' says this: > > perl-5.8.8 $ find t ext lib -name '*.t'|wc -l > 1002 > > So it appears that there really are 1002 .t files. What gives?
The tests corresponding to modules that have not being built are not run. Also, the tests in t/japh are not run normally. > Also, since I don't know makefiles terribly well, I can't figure out exactly > how the test suite is getting invoked. That might help me with 'runtests'. > Help? The thing that gets run when "make test" is issued is t/TEST. If you run "make test_harness" instead, it will invoke t/harness, which does use Test::Harness (t/TEST is a standalone, simpler script, that exercises less perl features.) -- Their notion of time is spread out not in a single dimension but over many, which all exist in a single, timeless instant. - Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day
