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authorPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2009-02-12 13:51:03 +0000
committerPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2009-02-13 11:13:33 +0000
commit48cae1e8642684f0103848b84d5884d1ba2412c8 (patch)
tree1845ae20d9e6f76bc906f7291fa91f33b4b1a656
parent022889a4575390b656abf89b0e8f43ef03c1cc00 (diff)
downloadcoreutils-48cae1e8642684f0103848b84d5884d1ba2412c8.tar.xz
maint: mention how to run a single test in HACKING docs
* HACKING: Give an example of how to run a test in isolation. * README: Fix/simplify example for running a single test. * README-hacking: Reference the HACKING file.
-rw-r--r--HACKING4
-rw-r--r--README14
-rw-r--r--README-hacking1
3 files changed, 9 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/HACKING b/HACKING
index 6eb04804b..2869c03e6 100644
--- a/HACKING
+++ b/HACKING
@@ -288,7 +288,9 @@ Nearly every significant change must be accompanied by a test suite
addition that exercises it. If you fix a bug, add at least one test that
fails without the patch, but that succeeds once your patch is applied.
If you add a feature, add tests to exercise as much of the new code
-as possible.
+as possible. Note to run tests/misc/newtest in isolation you can do:
+
+ (cd tests && make check TESTS=misc/newtest VERBOSE=yes)
There are hundreds of tests in the tests/ directories. You can use
tests/sample-test as a template, or one of the various Perl-based ones
diff --git a/README b/README
index 157432ec6..58aec019c 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -161,17 +161,13 @@ Reporting bugs:
IMPORTANT: if you take the time to report a test failure,
please be sure to include the output of running `make check'
in verbose mode for each failing test. For example,
-if the test that fails is tests/mv/hard-link-1, then you
-would run this command:
+if the test that fails is tests/misc/df, then you would
+run this command:
- env VERBOSE=yes make check -C tests/mv TESTS=hard-link-1 >> log 2>&1
+ (cd tests && make check TESTS=misc/df VERBOSE=yes) >> log 2>&1
-For some tests, you can get even more detail by including
-DEBUG=yes in the environment:
-
- env DEBUG=yes VERBOSE=yes make check -C tests/mv TESTS=hard-link-1 >> log 2>&1
-
-and then include the contents of the file `log' in your bug report.
+For some tests, you can get even more detail by adding DEBUG=yes.
+Then include the contents of the file `log' in your bug report.
***************************************
diff --git a/README-hacking b/README-hacking
index 8333cd07c..7a8b4c45c 100644
--- a/README-hacking
+++ b/README-hacking
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
These notes intend to help people working on the checked-out sources.
These requirements do not apply when building from a distribution tarball.
+See also HACKING for more detailed coreutils contribution guidlines.
* Requirements