Re: test failures with current mercurial sources (was Re: 3.0.1 release?)

[Ben Abbott]

On Thursday, April 03, 2008, at 10:35AM, "John W. Eaton" <address@hidden> wrote:
>On  3-Apr-2008, Ben Abbott wrote:
>
>| I've never tried to run tests on any of the liboctave files. How might  
>| I do that from Octave's prompt? ... Specifically, "CMatrix.cc"?
>
>These tests are normally run by the "make check" target.  To run them
>from the command line, you need to have the directory that contains
>the source file in the path, then run test Cmatrix.cc.
>
>I've been thinking that it would be good to also allow these tests to
>be run after Octave is installed.  At compile time, we could arrange
>to move the tests to separate files, which would then be installed
>along with the rest of Octave.  Then we could fix the test function to
>also look in these files for tests.  For built-in functions, we would
>probably want to allow the usual "test fcn" command work (the tests
>could be moved to a directory containing files named FCN.test).
>For other tests that are not clearly associated with a function, might
>allow "test CMatrix.cc" to work (the tests could be moved to files
>with names like CMatrix.cc.test).
>
>Would this be worth doing?
>
>jwe
>

I like the idea. How much effort is required?

>From my naive position ;-) ... it looks like a quick task for one proficient 
>in shell scripts and sed.

Ben