Re: [xml] Regression test questions

[Rush Manbert <rush manbert com>]

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.
>
> 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
> ## examples regression tests
> Unable to open test2.xml
> diff: reader1.res: No such file or directory
> I/O warning : failed to load external entity "test3.xml"
> Error: unable to parse file "test3.xml"
> Usage: ./xpath2 <xml-file> <xpath-expr> <value>
> diff: xpath2.res: No such file or directory
> I/O warning : failed to load external entity "test3.xml"
> Error: unable to parse file "test3.xml"
> Usage: ././xpath1 <xml-file> <xpath-expr> [<known-ns-list>]
> where <known-ns-list> is a list of known namespaces
> in "<prefix1>=<href1> <prefix2>=href2> ..." format
> diff: xpath1.res: No such file or directory
> diff: io2.res: No such file or directory
> diff: tree2.res: No such file or directory
> Unable to open test2.xml
> diff: reader1.res: No such file or directory
> diff: writer.xml: No such file or directory
> diff: writer.xml: No such file or directory
> diff: writer.xml: No such file or directory
> diff: writer.xml: No such file or directory
> Failed to parse test3.xml
> Unable to open test3.xml
> diff: reader3.res: No such file or directory
> diff: io1.res: No such file or directory
> I/O warning : failed to load external entity "test1.xml"
> Failed to parse test1.xml
> I/O warning : failed to load external entity "test2.xml"
> diff: tree1.res: No such file or directory
> test1.xml: failed to create reader
> diff: reader4.res: No such file or directory
> I/O warning : failed to load external entity "test2.xml"
> Failed to parse test2.xml
>
> This looks ominous, but make doesn't report any errors. Is this the  
> expected result when the tests pass?
>
> 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?
>
> Thanks,
> Rush

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?

- Rush