hello,
On Wed, Nov 20, 2024 at 02:17:14PM -0600, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> Hi Marc,
>
> At 2024-11-20T15:42:26+0100, Marc Chantreux wrote:
> > I saw some tests in the current codebase writen in shell but nothing
> > that complies to a report system.
>
> I find this comment a bit puzzling.
sorry about that. I hope i didn't miss something important.
> Have you performed a build of groff from source since 1.22.4 was
> released in December 2018?
I don't know when for the last time but I have to admit I didn't for
year now.
But as I consider contributing to the project, let's fix that:
I started to read INSTALL and typed
$ ./boostrap && ./configure
# few moment later …
autoreconf: Leaving directory '.'
./bootstrap: ln -fs ../gnulib/build-aux/install-sh build-aux/install-sh
./bootstrap: ln -fs ../gnulib/build-aux/depcomp build-aux/depcomp
./bootstrap: ln -fs ../gnulib/build-aux/config.guess
build-aux/config.guess
./bootstrap: ln -fs ../gnulib/build-aux/config.sub build-aux/config.sub
./bootstrap: ln -fs gnulib/doc/INSTALL INSTALL
./bootstrap: done. Now you can run './configure'.
checking that groff version string has valid format... invalid
configure: groff's version string must start with three decimal
integers separated by dots. "" does not match.
I edited the configure script manually so I can run make check
I'll read the doc and investigate later.
> You can find out more about the framework groff uses for automated tests
> at the following link.
>
> https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/automake.html#Scripts_002dbased-Testsuites
I never got that far in the automake documentation because I never felt
the need to learn something as scarry (based on m4 is enough for me to
run away, I'm a coward) and ignored that autotools did so many things.
> Have you ever run "make check" from a groff build?
I did and was just ignorant of the fact I had a standardized test report
format while reading ./test-suite.log.
I'm so happy to know that autotools can do TAP for me because many
projects use them. It's sad that's so unknown.
thank you so much: you made my day.
regards,
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