Re: [xml] Trying to make sense of testsuite errors with libxml2 2.7.6

[Rob Richards <rrichards cdatazone org>]

Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 06:53:42AM -0500, Rob Richards wrote:
>   
> > Daniel Veillard wrote:
> >     
> > >  Instead of running the test suite by running the runtest binary
> > > try to run it at the make level, but not sure if it works on Windows
> > >
> > > see Relaxtests target in Makefile.am, it does the same but with make
> > >
> > > for example the first failure correspond to
> > >
> > > paphio:~/XML -> xmllint --noout --relaxng test/relaxng/tutorA.rng ./test/relaxng/595792-ext.rng
> > > ./test/relaxng/595792-ext.rng validates
> > >
> > > so works here but apparently fails for you, why ... I don't know :-)
> > >
> > >       
> > They fail due to not matching the pattern when calling glob, so not
> > relaxng related at all. Only happens when the test filename does not
> > contain the _ character as the pattern is: ./test/relaxng/%s_?.xml
> >
> > I do have an in-progress test suite on the make level but never
> > finished it off when the test executables started getting pushed. If
> > there is interest I don't mind revisiting it.
> >     
>
>   Hum, I'm not sure, for the standard Windows build we don't use the
> normal makefiles, so I wonder how much help this would bring,
>
>
>   
It is built into the msvc makefile so on Windows you can run "nmake 
test" just like in the regular build.
Basically I have been converting the test scripts into windows scripting.

Rob