| README.tests |
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| Instructions for standalone test regressions of libxml2 |
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| libxml2-tests-$version.tar.gz contains 3 standalone C programs as well |
| as a large amount of tests and results coming from libxml2 itself and |
| from W3C, NIST, Sun Microsystems, Microsoft and James Clark. Each C |
| program has a different testing purpose: |
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| runtest.c : runs libxml2 basic internal regression tests |
| runsuite.c: runs libxml2 against external regression tests |
| testapi.c : exercises the library public entry points |
| testchar.c: exercise the check of character ranges and UTF-8 validation |
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| The command: |
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| make -f Makefile.tests check |
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| should be sufficient on an Unix system to build and exercise the tests |
| for the version of the library installed on the system. Note however |
| that there isn't backward compatibility provided so if the installed |
| version is older to the testsuite one, failing to compile or run the tests |
| is likely. In any event this won't work with an installed libxml2 older |
| than 2.6.20. |
| Building on other platfroms should be a matter of compiling the C files |
| like any other program using libxml2, running the test should be done |
| simply by launching the resulting executables. |
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| Daniel Veillard |
| Thu Jul 24 2008 |