I have asked the Erlang team about the missing tests using the erlang- bugs mailing list:
http://www.erlang.org/cgi-bin/ezmlm- cgi?2:mss:1487:200908:ikamdokeffmgahaocnkg "Hi! Running the release_tests: target in the Makefile doesn't work, at least not in R13-B01. It seems that the root of the problems is that the various tests/ subdirectories are not included in the source tarball, although the test_server is. For example the makefile tries to cd into lib/asn1/tests, and that directory doesn't exist. Why do I care? I'm working on the Erlang packages for Ubuntu (and this is probably relevant for Debian too). We're including CouchDB by default in the next release of Ubuntu, and so this means that Erlang is getting a lot more attention than it has before since it's going on the CD and in the default Ubuntu desktop installation. The Ubuntu security team has asked that the test suite be enabled as part of the Erlang package build process, so that we can have a higher degree of confidence that applying a bugfix has not broken anything - it's a standard thing that we do in Ubuntu for all sorts of important foundational packages like languages, databases, etc. Is it deliberate that the tests are not included in the source tarball? Is that something that could be changed? We're about to start delivering Erlang to many many millions of Ubuntu desktops in the next few weeks, and I would really really like to be able to run 'make release_tests' anytime we need to apply a critical patch or something when processing a security update sometime in the next 18 months that we will be supporting the packages we have shipped with Ubuntu 9.10. Thanks for making Erlang(yay erlang rocks!) and for your consideration." ** Changed in: erlang (Ubuntu) Status: In Progress => Confirmed -- move to main https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/401691 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
