Mercurial > vcprompt
changeset 166:ead5e87b1579
Add TESTPATH so it's possible to test multiple versions of Subversion.
| author | Greg Ward <greg@gerg.ca> |
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| date | Sun, 03 Nov 2013 18:04:21 -0500 |
| parents | bdf57a502324 |
| children | e46f03970944 |
| files | README.txt tests/common.sh tests/setup-svn tests/test-svn |
| diffstat | 4 files changed, 60 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/README.txt +++ b/README.txt @@ -37,6 +37,12 @@ make install DESTDIR=/tmp/packageroot PREFIX=/usr +Please report build failures to the development mailing list, +vcprompt-devel@googlegroups.com. + +vcprompt includes a fairly comprehensive test suite. If you want to +run it, see "Testing" below. + Dependencies ============ @@ -106,6 +112,46 @@ (For more details, see the man page.) +Testing +======= + +To run vcprompt's test suite: + + make check + +If it fails, it should be loud and obvious. Please report any test +failures to the development mailing list: +vcprompt-devel@googlegroups.com. + +To check for memory errors, you can run vcprompt's test suite under +valgrind: + + make grind + +Obviously, this requires that you have valgrind installed. + +Testing different Subversion versions +------------------------------------- + +Subversion changes its working copy format every couple of years, so +vcprompt supports three formats: the pre-1.4 XML format, the 1.4..1.6 +plain-text format, and the post-1.7 SQLite format. Actually testing +these requires that you have different versions of Subversion on hand, +each installed in a separate prefix. + +For example, I keep multiple versions in /usr/local/subversion-1.x, so +I can test them like this: + + rm -f tests/svn-repo.tar && make check-svn TOOLPATH=/usr/local/subversion-1.6/bin + rm -f tests/svn-repo.tar && make check-svn TOOLPATH=/usr/local/subversion-1.7/bin + +Actually *building* multiple versions of Subversion is harder than you +would believe. (In fact, I've been unable to build anything older than +1.5, so vcprompt's support for pre-1.4 working copies is currently +untested.) + + + Contributing ============
--- a/tests/common.sh +++ b/tests/common.sh @@ -12,6 +12,16 @@ exit 1 } +# Prepend $TOOLPATH to $PATH (if $TOOLPATH set), so caller can +# influence where external tools (e.g. svn, hg) are found. Must be +# called before check_available if it's to be of any use. +set_path() +{ + if [ -s "$TOOLPATH" ]; then + PATH=$TOOLPATH:$PATH + fi +} + # Check if some external command is available by running it # and ensuring that it prints an expected string. If not, # exit with optional message.