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Re: Problems with make test
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Graham Percival |
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Re: Problems with make test |
Date: |
Tue, 31 Jul 2012 16:48:54 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 11:22:25AM +0100, Phil Holmes wrote:
> So I open collated-files.html, to find that there are no images to
> eyeball. The HTML expects PNG files, but very few are created (in
> particular, the one I want...).
collated-files.html only shows the differences, not the actual
files. Furthermore, these differences are calculated based on the
.eps or something like that, and text is *not* included in the
comparison! For various reasons, the original authors of this
system deliberately did not use a pixel-based checker.
(at the present time I make no judgement about the validity of
their reasons, mainly because I can't remember what they were but
I know that they know far more than me about this stuff so I'm
content to trust them. But if you want to investigate this later,
I could help dig up the old emails and then you could play around
with the build system and GUB)
> .ps files are created, but if I
> double click these, all I get is an image saying 'Loading...'
There _are_ ways of viewing the output from those .ps files
(although I could have sworn that the real data was in the .eps
files, not .ps -- also, watch out for foo.eps vs. foo-1.eps. IIRC
the real data is in foo-1.eps!). However, it requires finding the
right file(s), possibly specifying additional font information,
etc.
> Are we aware that make test doesn't create a usable document from
> which to view the output, or is it just an oddity of my system?
I'm aware that there are difficulties. I have a vague sense that
this has been discussed within the past year and one of the
Germans (David/Werner/Reinhold) posted instructions for viewing
the output with ghostscript.
- Graham