| Daniel Veillard | 1f33c4d | 2005-07-10 21:38:31 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | README.tests |
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| 3 | Instructions for standalone test regressions of libxml2 |
| 4 | |
| 5 | libxml2-tests-$version.tar.gz contains 3 standalone C programs as well |
| 6 | as a large amount of tests and results coming from libxml2 itself and |
| 7 | from W3C, NIST, Sun Microsystems, Microsoft and James Clark. Each C |
| 8 | program has a different testing purpose: |
| 9 | |
| 10 | runtest.c : runs libxml2 basic internal regression tests |
| 11 | runsuite.c: runs libxml2 against external regression tests |
| 12 | testapi.c : exercises the library public entry points |
| 13 | |
| 14 | The command: |
| 15 | |
| 16 | make -f Makefile.tests |
| 17 | |
| 18 | should be sufficient on an Unix system to build and exercise the tests |
| 19 | for the version of the library installed on the system. Note however |
| 20 | that there isn't backward compatibility provided so if the installed |
| 21 | version is older to the testsuite one, failing to compile or run the tests |
| 22 | is likely. In any event this won't work with an installed libxml2 older |
| 23 | than 2.6.20. |
| 24 | Building on other platfroms should be a matter of compiling the C files |
| 25 | like any other program using libxml2, running the test should be done |
| 26 | simply by launching the resulting executables. |
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| 28 | Daniel Veillard |
| 29 | Sun Jul 10 2005 |