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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)
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Francois-Xavier
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