Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] test: replace gtester with a TAP driver

[Kevin Wolf]

Am 06.12.2018 um 22:50 hat Paolo Bonzini geschrieben:
> gtester is deprecated by upstream glib (see for example the announcement
> at https://blog.gtk.org/2018/07/11/news-from-glib-2-58/) and it does
> not support tests that call g_test_skip in some glib stable releases.
> 
> glib suggests instead using Automake's TAP support, which gtest itself
> supports since version 2.38 (QEMU's minimum requirement is 2.40).
> We do not support Automake, but we can use Automake's code to beautify
> the TAP output.  I chose to use the Perl copy rather than the shell/awk
> one, with some changes so that it can accept TAP through stdin, in order
> to reuse Perl's TAP parsing package.  This also avoids duplicating the
> parser between tap-driver.pl and tap-merge.pl.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden>

I just wanted to work on a unit test and found that a simple 'make
check-tests/test-bdrv-drain' (which used to build and run the test with
a single command) doesn't work any more.

git bisect points to this commit.

Kevin