Re: errors on make check

["Julio M. Merino Vidal" <jmmv84%gmail.com@localhost>]

On May 16, 2008, at 21:22 , Marc Spitzer wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am trying to make a port for atf on freebsd.

Great!

>   The compile seems to
> work fine but I have had two problems when I tried to test, gmake
> check, and they are:
>
> 1: could not find the default tools directory, ./tools.  Fixed by
> adding to path

This is normal.  make check is supposed to use already-installed  
tools; attempting to run it against the binaries in the source tree  
is just asking for failure.  Yes, I know that the INSTALL document  
says that make check goes before make install... but that is wrong.

By the way, you mention gmake.  Doesn't the build of ATF work with  
the native make in FreeBSD?

> 2: ./tools/atf-config and ./tools/atf-run do not like what they are
> being fed by "gmake check":
>
>
> /testsuite.at:30: /usr/ports/devel/atf/work/atf-0.5/tools/atf- 
> config --version
> atf-config: ERROR: Unknown option --.
> atf-config: Type `atf-config -h' for more details.
>
> /testsuite.at:30: /usr/ports/devel/atf/work/atf-0.5/tools/atf-run -- 
> version
> atf-run: ERROR: Unknown option --.
> atf-run: Type `atf-run -h' for more details.

That's not a problem.  Autotest assumes that the world is GNU and  
that programs will print a version identifier if fed them the -- 
version argument, which the ATF tools do not support.  This is just  
done for informational purposes and the errors are non-fatal.

The test suite is failing because you are running it against non- 
installed tools.

Hope this helps and thanks for working on the package.