Re: Review: tests for client programs

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Review: tests for client programs
Date: 2014-02-17 14:19:00
Message-ID: 20140217141900.GK6342@eldon.alvh.no-ip.org
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Pavel Stehule escribió:
> 2014-02-09 4:16 GMT+01:00 Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>:

> > > a) Configure doesn't check a required IRC::Run module
> >
> > Clearly, we will need to figure out something about how to require this
> > module, and possibly others in the future, as we expand the tests.
> > Having configure check for it is not necessarily the best solution --
> > What is configure supposed to do if it can't find it?
>
> there can be option "--with-client-tests" and this option should to require
> IRC::Run

A configure option seems a workable idea.

In the future we might want to use the Perl test framework for other
things, so perhaps --enable-perl-testing or something like that. See
for instance
http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/64aaac31739cef275839932f16fda226@biglumber.com

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