Re: Apt testsuite

[Michael Vogt <mvo@debian.org>]

On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 10:57:10PM -0400, James Vega wrote:
> In the process of working on a patch for #363389, I added a test for the
> version compare to verify that equal versions (one with a zero epoch and
> one without) compare equally.  However, I'm not having much luck running
> the tests.
> 
>   root@debil:~/apt-0.6.43.3exp1# make -C test versiontest
>   make: Entering directory `/tmp/buildd/apt-0.6.43.3exp1/test'
>   Compiling versiontest.cc to ../build/obj/test/versiontest.o
>   versiontest.cc:235: fatal error: opening dependency file
>   ../build/obj/test/versiontest.d: No such file or directory
>   compilation terminated.
>   make: *** [../build/obj/test/versiontest.o] Error 1
>   make: Leaving directory `/tmp/buildd/apt-0.6.43.3exp1/test'
>   root@debil:~/apt-0.6.43.3exp1#
> 
> Is there something I'm missing or is the testsuit just non-functional
> right now?

Thanks for your mail and sorry for my late reply. The apt testsuit is
functional (mostly) but dosn't create the "../build/obj/test"
directory automatically. If you create it by hand all should work
well. 

Cheers,
 Michael


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