Test suite

[duchier at ps.uni-sb.de]

Boriss Mejias <bmc at info.ucl.ac.be> writes:

> cd build/share/test
> make boot-all
> ./oztest -v --ignores=dp,unix

here ^^^ you compiled using the build system, but test with the installed
system.  You probably should be invoking "make boot-check" or "make boot-zcheck"
instead.

> In default and debug mode, if I run it without ignoring unix, it will hang in 
> the test: unix_write1

probably because it cannot find the smallbuf.so{native} functor.  That's where
the boot- prefix for the make target is helpful: it sets up appropriate env
vars.

> Another question. Why in the Makefile the option boot-check ignores dp?

For two reasons: (1) it doesn't exactly make sense to attempt dp on a
non-installed system (the "remote" system is not in place). (2) running the dp
test suite actually requires some special effort on Linux distros because the
rsh spawning method (which is also being tested by the test suite) requires
system support which is normally turned off for security reasons.

--Denys