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| -rw-r--r-- | HACKING | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | README | 14 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | README-hacking | 1 |
3 files changed, 9 insertions, 10 deletions
@@ -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 @@ -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 |