- gpg(1)
- python(1)
-If your system lacks these tools or have older, non-upgreable versions
+If your system lacks these tools or have older, non-upgradable versions
of these, please (possibly compile and) install these to some other
path, for example /usr/local/bin or /opt/gnu/bin. Then prepend the
chosen directory to your PATH before running the tests.
e.g. env PATH=/opt/gnu/bin:$PATH make test
+For FreeBSD you need to install latest gdb from ports or packages and
+provide path to it in TEST_GDB environment variable before executing
+the tests, native FreeBSD gdb does not not work. If you install
+coreutils, which provides GNU versions of basic utils like 'date' and
+'base64' on FreeBSD, the test suite will use these instead of the
+native ones. This provides robustness against portability issues with
+these system tools. Most often the tests are written, reviewed and
+tested on Linux system so such portability issues arise from time to
+time.
+
+
Running Tests
-------------
The easiest way to run tests is to say "make test", (or simply run the
As the names depend on the tests' file names, it is safe to
run the tests with this option in parallel.
---root=<dir>::
- This runs the testsuites specified under a separate directory.
- However, caution is advised, as not all tests are maintained
- with this relocation in mind, so some tests may behave
- differently.
-
- Pointing this argument at a tmpfs filesystem can improve the
- speed of the test suite for some users.
-
Certain tests require precomputed databases to complete. You can fetch these
databases with
Currently we do not consider skipped tests as build failures. For
maximum robustness, when setting up automated build processes, you
-should explicitely skip tests, rather than relying on notmuch's
+should explicitly skip tests, rather than relying on notmuch's
detection of missing prerequisites. In the future we may treat tests
-unable to run because of missing prerequisites, but not explicitely
+unable to run because of missing prerequisites, but not explicitly
skipped by the user, as failures.
Writing Tests