Re: [xml] Regression test questions

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 07:02:55AM -0800, Rush Manbert wrote:
>
> On Nov 25, 2008, at 5:19 PM, Rush Manbert wrote:
>
>> HI,
>>
>> I just got libxml 2.7.2 and have built it on the Mac under OS X 10.5.
>>
>> The make generates quite a few warnings, so I am interested in the  
>> test results.

  in general try "make check"

>> I ram "make tests" and it generates lots of output. The last few lines 
>> are these:
>> ## Module tests
>> module error : failed to open .libs/testdso.so

  apparently shared lib support or problem with shared library names
would be platform specific

>> ## examples regression tests
>> Unable to open test2.xml

  huh ... are you sure docs/examples/ is complete from the tarball 
checkout, seems there is a problem there.

>> This looks ominous, but make doesn't report any errors. Is this the  
>> expected result when the tests pass?

  no, clearly

>> After this, I tried running the four test programs mentioned in  
>> README.tests. The only one that is problematic is runtest, which  
>> reports this:
>> Total 508 tests, 1 errors, 0 leaks
>>
>> In the course of running the tests it has spewed out thousands of  
>> lines that report errors of one sort or another. My question is how do 
>> I figure out what the one real error is that is being reported?

  no idea, I assume it's always the same error.

> I'd like to add a supplemental question. If my goal is to run the full  
> make, then run all the tests and verify that they pass, should I just  
> use the check target? DSo I need to run any of the command line test  
> programs outside of make?

  "make ; make check" should mostly work, though I test only on Linux
myself.

Daniel

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