Re: make check

[Joao Cardoso]

Thomas Walter wrote:

> Hello,
> I investigated some time to the 'make check'.

Thanks. I will get the time to "chech" this :-).

But dejagnu is a mess: 3 components! The last expect available (5.31) at 
http://expect.nist.gov only
work with tcl-8.2. The last dejagnu snapshot I could locate is dejagnu-971222, 
at
ftp.cygnus.com/pub/dejagnu
I have to compile them myself, as I'm not a linux user :(

Until now, I had no success (with last octave only) using either one or even 
"mixing" them :-)

Thanks,
Joao

>
> On my linux system I had 'expect version 5.24.1' but no dejagnu.
> I Downloaded 'dejagnu-1.3' from my nearest GNU mirror and unpacked it.
> Now 'cd' into 'dejagnu-1.3/dejagnu'.
> Call from your shell
>    mkdir ~/dejagnu
>    mkdir ~/dejagnu/lib
>    mkdir ~/bin
>    cp runtest* ~/bin
>    cp lib/* ~/dejagnu/lib
>
> Change to your octave-2.1.19/test directory and call
>    make RUNTEST=$HOME/bin/runtest check
> Ignore the message about missing global config file.  This is a file
> 'site.exp' which may be somewhere but you can savely ignore it.
> Now the check should pass everthing except 'mktime-1.exp'.
> Is you still have problems edit 'test/Makefile' and change the check
> target to
>
> check:
>         @if test -n "$(RUNTEST)"; then \
>           $(SET_LD_LIBRARY_PATH) $(RUNTEST) \
>             OCTAVE="$(OCTAVE_BINARY)" \
>             OCTAVE_SCRIPT_PATH="$(OCTAVE_SCRIPT_PATH)" \
>             --tool octave --srcdir $(srcdir) -v -v $(RUNTEST_FLAGS); \
>         else \
>           echo "***"; \
>           echo "*** Sorry, I can't run tests without DejaGnu"; \
>           echo "***"; \
>         fi
>
> which invreases the verbosity level and you should see the path to
> look for files.  Anothe helper may be
>
> ~/bin/runtest --host unix-octave --debug -v -v --srcdir . --tool octave 
> octave.test/args/args.exp
>
> Perhaps this helps you
>
> Bye
> Thomas
>
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