From hub at figuiere.net  Mon Aug  4 16:34:20 2008
From: hub at figuiere.net (Hubert Figuiere)
Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:34:20 -0400
Subject: Booststraping the testsuite
Message-ID: <1217892860.31394.17.camel@quagmire>

Hi all,

So now, with the latest master in git, you can boostrap the testsuite by
download files over the internet.


Here is how it goes:

I run this:

srcdir=../testsuite ./testsuite/testsuite -b -d files


I'll explain a bit.

I set "srcdir" to where the testsuite.xml is. If you build directly in
the source tree, you don't need. I might add an option to path in this
directory. Not very hard, just lazy.

I start testsuite with 2 parameters:
"-b" to say "bootstrap"
"-d files" to say "put the downloaded files into the "files" directory.
You can set that to any directory, including an absolute path.

After that, "make check" will use the testsuite.xml.overrides files to
overrides the default and run the testsuite.

Now, the testsuite is required to pass for any submitted patch.

Enjoy !

Hub