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On 02/02/2020 04:24, Francois-Xavier Le Bail wrote:
> On 31/01/2020 17:19, Michael Richardson wrote:
>>
>> Francois-Xavier Le Bail via tcpdump-workers wrote:
>> > On 28/01/2020 23:17, Denis Ovsienko via tcpdump-workers wrote:
>> >> The new dependency makes it more difficult to run tests and will break
>> >> package builds downstream (thus penalising people that cared enough to
>> >> make "make check" a part of the build). Maybe the cost of the solution
>> >> does not justify the problem it solves (which it would be nice to
>> >> state)?
>>
>> > Why not just keep the TESTLIST file as it is, a text file with test
>> lines and comments?
>>
>> Because it does not live alone actually.
>>
>> It has a series of foo.sh files do that do annoying testing based upon what
>> is configured, and I'd like to do more of the process of testing things that
>> are configured, or when they are not configured.
>> I don't want to write more shell scripts.
>
> We could add a "type" field in TESTLIST and do the process following this
> type.
>
> std: standard test.
> crypto: need ssl library.
> gcc: need GCC compiler.
> etc.
>
> Like in:
> https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/745cd41b98feff4228783501be37889f7a473e5b
> (test branch: typed-tests)
Typo fixed in:
https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/23848a19458970c4127d5a0364f690767362c3b6
(This is just a first step for showing the idea, the 'crypto' and 'gcc' tests
could be move in
TESTLIST for a processing based on the field 'type')
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Francois-Xavier
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