On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 08:52:22AM -0800, Rush Manbert wrote: > I now know that my previous problems were because I was trying to run > configure in a directory other than the distribution directory.
ah, yes no chance that will work ! > I can now run all 4 of the test programs and all (?) of the tests that > make will run, and they all seem to pass. Some of the tests run by make > generate a lot of error output, but the make does not fail. > > So I guess my real question is how do I get the best test coverage? > > Right now I am doing the following: > ./configure > make > make runtests > make testall > > because that seems to run all of the available tests, even though it > also seems to have some overlap. > > Are runtests and testall the targets to use? I would say use: make check I try to get as much coverage as possible that way. there are overlaps between the various test commands, yes see also 'configure --with-coverage' and 'make cov' if you have a recent gcc, lcov and genhtml on your platform (works on some linuxes) Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ http://veillard.com/ | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/ _______________________________________________ xml mailing list, project page http://xmlsoft.org/ [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xml
