[GRASS5] testsuite with dejagnu

[Markus Neteler]

On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 11:28:08PM +0200, Andreas Lange wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> i checked in a testsuite with dejagnu into CVS (for details see my
> announcement some time ago and the README file in the directory).
> 
> I hope to extend the test scripts in the next time.
> 
> You can run the tests with 'make check' (Needs a long time to
> complete!), but you first must install dejagnu and compile the source. 
Small hint: You have to install "expect", too.
 
> One problem that i encountered is that some modules are only
> interactive, without a commandline version (and even do not echo a usage
> info with invalid commandline!). I had no time to investigate each of
> the >300 modules, but i think that some standardization is needed.
Yesterday I have fixed that, Andreas. Some modules had to be put into
BIN_MAIN_INTER instead of BIN_MAIN_CMD. Now they echo that they are
interactive modules (hope I didn't miss one).
 
> Another problem is that the make install process repeats the html to man
> conversion every time it is invoked, there seems to be no status
> information on the build process. 
Here we need something. Probably a timestamp comparison.

Markus

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