[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#8589) 6 test scripts

["Raimar Falke" <i-freeciv-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8589 >

On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 11:10:34AM -0700, Jason Short wrote:
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> <URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8589 >
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> Raimar Falke wrote:
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> > They all print some basic information what they do. They all assume
> > that your current dir is the top freeciv dir. They require
> > python2. Only start the .sh files.
> 
> So the idea is for these to go into the tests/ directory?  Then...

> We need a configure check for python2 that disables these tests if it's 
> not available.

IMHO overkill.

> They need to run from the tests directory.  We can easily pass 
> $(top_srcdir) as an argument to them.

Change the "." for the find command. Easy.

> We probably need a comparison text file.  It's hard to automate most 
> tests because the output needs to be scanned by humans.  But if we had, 
> for instance, a text file that had the "correct" output then the 
> script's output could be compared to that.  Unfortunately the correct 
> output may not be constant.  This problem doesn't seem solvable.

In each case

  tests/find_*.sh | grep -v '^#'

should be empty. No comparison text file needed.

        Raimar

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