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diff --git a/libxml2/README.tests b/libxml2/README.tests new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8d86f2a --- /dev/null +++ b/libxml2/README.tests @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ + README.tests + + Instructions for standalone test regressions of libxml2 + +libxml2-tests-$version.tar.gz contains 3 standalone C programs as well +as a large amount of tests and results coming from libxml2 itself and +from W3C, NIST, Sun Microsystems, Microsoft and James Clark. Each C +program has a different testing purpose: + + runtest.c : runs libxml2 basic internal regression tests + runsuite.c: runs libxml2 against external regression tests + testapi.c : exercises the library public entry points + testchar.c: exercise the check of character ranges and UTF-8 validation + +The command: + + make check +or + make -f Makefile.tests check + +should be sufficient on an Unix system to build and exercise the tests +for the version of the library installed on the system. Note however +that there isn't backward compatibility provided so if the installed +version is older than the testsuite one, failing to compile or run the tests +is likely. In any event this won't work with an installed libxml2 older +than 2.6.20. + +Building on other platforms should be a matter of compiling the C files +like any other program using libxml2, running the test should be done +simply by launching the resulting executables. + +Also note the availability of a "make valgrind" target which will run the +above tests under valgrind to check for memory errors (but this relies +on the availability of the valgrind command and take far more time to +complete). + +Daniel Veillard +Mon May 7 2012 + |