[pacman-dev] [PATCH 0/7] integrate test suite with automake

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Sun Aug 4 20:52:17 EDT 2013


On 02/08/13 22:34, Andrew Gregory wrote:
> This patchset converts the output of all of our tests to tap [1] and fully
> integrates them with automake so that tests can be run in parallel with `make
> check`.  The test suite may also be run with other test harnesses such as
> perl's prove which can do such interesting things as remember which tests
> failed and run only those on subsequent invocations.  The documentation for
> integrating tests is here [2].
> 
> [1] http://podwiki.hexten.net/TAP/TAP.html?page=TAP
> [2] http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Parallel-Test-Harness.html
> 

Have you any ideas on how to fix the "unexpected" pass on the time test
for x86_64 to not have the test suite return non-zero?  I believe this
is essential.

Allan



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