Re: tcpdump testsuite and Perl

[Francois-Xavier Le Bail via tcpdump-workers <tcpdump-workers () lists tcpdump org>]

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> From: Francois-Xavier Le Bail <devel.fx.lebail () orange fr>
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> Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2020 04:24:52 +0100
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> On 31/01/2020 17:19, Michael Richardson wrote:
> > Francois-Xavier Le Bail via tcpdump-workers wrote:
> >     > On 28/01/2020 23:17, Denis Ovsienko via tcpdump-workers wrote:
> >     >> The new dependency makes it more difficult to run tests and will break
> >     >> package builds downstream (thus penalising people that cared enough to
> >     >> make "make check" a part of the build). Maybe the cost of the solution
> >     >> does not justify the problem it solves (which it would be nice to
> >     >> state)?
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> >     > Why not just keep the TESTLIST file as it is, a text file with test lines and comments?
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> > Because it does not live alone actually.
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> > It has a series of foo.sh files do that do annoying testing based upon what
> > is configured, and I'd like to do more of the process of testing things that
> > are configured, or when they are not configured.
> > I don't want to write more shell scripts.
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> We could add a "type" field in TESTLIST and do the process following this type.
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>     std: standard test.
>     crypto: need ssl library.
>     gcc: need GCC compiler.
>     etc.
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> Like in:
> https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/745cd41b98feff4228783501be37889f7a473e5b
> (test branch:  typed-tests)
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> Francois-Xavier
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