Re: errors on make check

["Marc Spitzer" <mspitzer%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 6:50 AM, Julio M. Merino Vidal 
<jmmv84%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> On May 16, 2008, at 21:22 , Marc Spitzer wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am trying to make a port for atf on freebsd.
>
> Great!
>
>>  The compile seems to
>> work fine but I have had two problems when I tried to test, gmake
>> check, and they are:
>>
>> 1: could not find the default tools directory, ./tools.  Fixed by
>> adding to path
>
> This is normal.  make check is supposed to use already-installed tools;
> attempting to run it against the binaries in the source tree is just asking
> for failure.  Yes, I know that the INSTALL document says that make check
> goes before make install... but that is wrong.
>
> By the way, you mention gmake.  Doesn't the build of ATF work with the
> native make in FreeBSD?

I did not try, I see a configure script I use gmake.  I am trying
system make now, it did compile.

>
>> 2: ./tools/atf-config and ./tools/atf-run do not like what they are
>> being fed by "gmake check":
>>
>>
>> /testsuite.at:30: /usr/ports/devel/atf/work/atf-0.5/tools/atf-config
>> --version
>> atf-config: ERROR: Unknown option --.
>> atf-config: Type `atf-config -h' for more details.
>>
>> /testsuite.at:30: /usr/ports/devel/atf/work/atf-0.5/tools/atf-run
>> --version
>> atf-run: ERROR: Unknown option --.
>> atf-run: Type `atf-run -h' for more details.
>
> That's not a problem.  Autotest assumes that the world is GNU and that
> programs will print a version identifier if fed them the --version argument,
> which the ATF tools do not support.  This is just done for informational
> purposes and the errors are non-fatal.

Ok learn something new every day.

>
> The test suite is failing because you are running it against non-installed
> tools.

I do not know how much work it would be to make it work against
itself, it would be a good final check before installing.

>
> Hope this helps and thanks for working on the package.
>

Well credit where it is due, writing the software is much more work, thank you.

now off to figure out the rest of packaging.

marc

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