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authorSteven Knight <knight@baldmt.com>2006-07-25 02:30:45 (GMT)
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Merged revisions 1441-1539 via svnmerge from
http://scons.tigris.org/svn/scons/branches/core ........ r1441 | stevenknight | 2006-04-22 23:06:53 -0400 (Sat, 22 Apr 2006) | 1 line 0.96.D397 - The scons command, branch 0.96.91. ........ r1442 | stevenknight | 2006-04-27 00:45:12 -0400 (Thu, 27 Apr 2006) | 1 line 0.96.D398 - The scons command, branch 0.96.92. ........ r1443 | stevenknight | 2006-04-27 00:49:25 -0400 (Thu, 27 Apr 2006) | 1 line 0.96.D399 - Taskmaster clean-ups in anticipation of refactoring speedups. ........ r1450 | stevenknight | 2006-05-02 00:04:55 -0400 (Tue, 02 May 2006) | 1 line 0.96.D400 - Fix VC+++ 2005 Express detection. (Atul Varma) Fix parsing Intel C compiler Li ........ r1451 | stevenknight | 2006-05-02 01:14:24 -0400 (Tue, 02 May 2006) | 1 line 0.96.D401 - Enhance ParseConfig() to understand -arch and -isysroot options. (Gary Oberbrun ........ r1458 | stevenknight | 2006-05-02 23:21:04 -0400 (Tue, 02 May 2006) | 1 line 0.96.D402 - Make strfunction handling consistent. (David Gruener) ........ r1459 | stevenknight | 2006-05-02 23:37:08 -0400 (Tue, 02 May 2006) | 1 line 0.96.D403 - Comment out the test of CVS checkout from the old tigris.org repository. ........ r1460 | stevenknight | 2006-05-03 23:47:54 -0400 (Wed, 03 May 2006) | 1 line 0.96.D404 - Preserve white space in display Action string. (David Gruener) ........ r1461 | stevenknight | 2006-05-04 09:16:15 -0400 (Thu, 04 May 2006) | 1 line 0.96.D405 - Add MergeFlags() and AddFlags() methods. (Greg Noel) Support recognizing compi ........ r1462 | stevenknight | 2006-05-04 23:46:53 -0400 (Thu, 04 May 2006) | 1 line 0.96.D406 - Fix stack trace when ParseFlags has a null string. ........ r1464 | stevenknight | 2006-05-05 17:21:27 -0400 (Fri, 05 May 2006) | 1 line 0.96.D408 - Fix the string displayed by InstallAs() when called through the default construc ........ r1465 | stevenknight | 2006-05-05 18:30:28 -0400 (Fri, 05 May 2006) | 1 line 0.96.D409 - Fix test/ParseConfig.py, broken in the previous checkin by ParseFlags() changes. ........ r1466 | stevenknight | 2006-05-05 20:42:35 -0400 (Fri, 05 May 2006) | 1 line 0.96.D407 - Avoid recursive calls to main() in SConf test programs. (Karol Pietrzak) ........ r1467 | stevenknight | 2006-05-06 00:27:21 -0400 (Sat, 06 May 2006) | 1 line 0.96.D410 - Catch errors from commands that ParseConfig() calls. (John Pye) ........ r1468 | stevenknight | 2006-05-06 10:55:38 -0400 (Sat, 06 May 2006) | 1 line 0.96.D411 - Significant taskmaster speedup by using reference counts, not list manipulation. ........ r1469 | stevenknight | 2006-05-06 18:38:02 -0400 (Sat, 06 May 2006) | 1 line 0.96.D413 - TeX improvements. ........ r1471 | stevenknight | 2006-05-07 09:07:58 -0400 (Sun, 07 May 2006) | 2 lines Delete properties interfering with clean .jpg checkout. ........ r1472 | stevenknight | 2006-05-07 09:23:54 -0400 (Sun, 07 May 2006) | 1 line 0.96.D412 - Windows portability fixes for two tests and ParseConfig() execution. ........ r1473 | stevenknight | 2006-05-07 09:30:11 -0400 (Sun, 07 May 2006) | 1 line 0.96.D414 - Various man page and documentation updates. ........ r1474 | stevenknight | 2006-05-07 23:53:12 -0400 (Sun, 07 May 2006) | 1 line 0.96.D415 - Initial infrastructure for executing tests under QMTest. (Stefan Seefeld) ........ r1476 | stevenknight | 2006-05-09 00:03:47 -0400 (Tue, 09 May 2006) | 1 line 0.96.D416 - Fix QMTest infrastructure to avoid listing directories with no tests and to find ........ r1477 | stevenknight | 2006-05-16 06:47:51 -0400 (Tue, 16 May 2006) | 1 line 0.96.D417 - Fix Alias turning Entries into Nodes or Dirs too soon. ........ r1478 | stevenknight | 2006-05-17 08:32:58 -0400 (Wed, 17 May 2006) | 1 line 0.96.D418 - Next QMTest changes (including fixing copyrights). ........ r1479 | stevenknight | 2006-05-18 05:07:06 -0400 (Thu, 18 May 2006) | 1 line 0.96.D419 - Fix DVIPDF tests after recent changes. ........ r1497 | stevenknight | 2006-05-23 08:47:01 -0400 (Tue, 23 May 2006) | 1 line 0.96.D420 - Better error message when trying to build a file from an unknown sufix. (Gary O ........ r1498 | stevenknight | 2006-05-23 09:38:52 -0400 (Tue, 23 May 2006) | 1 line 0.96.D421 - Suppress duplicate entries in latest TeX patch. (Joel B. Mohler) ........ r1499 | stevenknight | 2006-05-23 22:00:06 -0400 (Tue, 23 May 2006) | 1 line 0.96.D422 - Add tests for tuple variable expansion. (Gary Oberbrunner) ........ r1515 | stevenknight | 2006-06-12 06:44:24 -0400 (Mon, 12 Jun 2006) | 1 line 0.96.D423 - More QMTest work: start giving runtest.py its own tests, more functionality for ........ r1517 | stevenknight | 2006-06-21 07:34:30 -0400 (Wed, 21 Jun 2006) | 1 line 0.96.D424 - Move test/Configure.py and test/Options.py to avoid confusion with similarly-nam ........ r1518 | stevenknight | 2006-06-21 12:40:37 -0400 (Wed, 21 Jun 2006) | 1 line 0.96.D425 - Change the QMTest infrastructure to use File naming, not Python. Rename tests w ........ r1533 | stevenknight | 2006-07-23 20:10:08 -0400 (Sun, 23 Jul 2006) | 1 line 0.96.D426 - Fix ramifications of changing when Node disambiguation happens. ........ r1535 | stevenknight | 2006-07-24 06:40:43 -0400 (Mon, 24 Jul 2006) | 3 lines Initialized merge tracking via "svnmerge" with revisions "1-1534" from http://scons.tigris.org/svn/scons/trunk ........ r1536 | stevenknight | 2006-07-24 21:45:40 -0400 (Mon, 24 Jul 2006) | 2 lines Remove svnmerge-integrated property to start over. ........ r1538 | stevenknight | 2006-07-24 21:51:32 -0400 (Mon, 24 Jul 2006) | 3 lines Initialized merge tracking via "svnmerge" with revisions "1-1440" from http://scons.tigris.org/svn/scons/trunk ........
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@@ -3,11 +3,10 @@ __COPYRIGHT__
This directory contains our end-to-end SCons tests.
They are all meant to be run essentially standalone, with the exception
-of the TestSCons.py module (and the TestCmd.py module it imports) that
-is imported by each test. These modules are in the etc/ subdirectory,
-and PYTHONPATH needs to be set up correctly so that the test script can
-find them, and so that the SCons script itself can find the build engine
-modules.
+of the TestSCons.py module and the other modules imported by the various
+tests. These modules are in the QMTest/ subdirectory, and PYTHONPATH
+needs to be set up correctly so that the test scripts can find them,
+and so that the SCons script itself can find the build engine modules.
There is a wrapper script, runtest.py, that takes care of this for you,
so the canonical invocation of a test is:
@@ -17,9 +16,7 @@ so the canonical invocation of a test is:
There is also a "runtest.py -a" option that will search the tree for
all tests, and execute them.
-Many of these tests have code for features that are not yet supported,
-but which will be part of SCons IN THE CURRENT PLANNED RELEASE. These
-are either:
+Some of these tests have code for features that are not yet supported.
commented out with a "#XXX" at the beginning of the line;
@@ -27,13 +24,6 @@ are either:
early call to test.pass_test(), which has a "#XXX" comment
at the end of the line
-The upshot is that you should be able to:
-
- egrep -l '#XXX' test/*.py
-
-and see a list of the tests we still have to make work in order to get
-the next release out the door.
-
If you're trying to implement one of these features, DO NOT BLINDLY
ASSUME THAT THE NEW CODE IN THE TEST IS CORRECT. It may have problems
that have gone undiscovered due to the fact that the code testing the
@@ -50,17 +40,9 @@ semblance of uniformity, here are the naming conventions for tests:
keep this description reasonably
short
- Feature-01.py additional tests of specified
- Feature-02.py feature
- Feature-03.py
-
Feature-x.py test of specified feature using
option x
- Feature-x-01.py additional tests of specified
- Feature-x-02.py feature using option x
- Feature-x-03.py
-
-- Command line option tests take the form:
option-x.py lower-case single-letter option