Hello,
I work upstream for libssh. There is no way to activate the test suite in
libssh for two good reasons:
-Libssh actually has no testsuite. The test/ directory is more meant as some
code the authors (including me) wrote to test new features, but that code is
not maintained and doesn't act as a testsuite. Such testsuite should be
implemented, at least partially, with the next big libssh release.
-Even when this testsuite will be implemented, the use of the tests during
compilation would not be a good idea in my opinion, because the tests will
require a SSH server configured in a certain way. We could see for instances
report of failed tests on systems without SSH server, or where the connection
to localhost fails for trivial reasons.
I'd also add that libssh is not exactly a cryptographic library. Cryptography
is done within libcrypto of libgcrypt depending how libssh is compiled. There
are some functions in libssh that are worth unit-testing, like
base64-{en|de}coding, Diffie-helman using libbignum, ...
We will try to provide tests that can run for them at compile time in next
release.
Feel free to ask me if you have any other question.
Regards,
Aris
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