On Aug 20, 2007, at 9:35 PM, Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Following my "First ATF preview"[1] e-mail, I have uploaded[2] new  
> snapshots of NetBSD-current with ATF[3] merged into it.  I have  
> used the first public release of ATF, 0.1[4], for this build.  It  
> has been released today to conclude the development of ATF as part  
> of Summer of Code 2007.  All further code will be outside of the  
> scope of SoC.
>
> As stated in the first preview: At the moment I have only uploaded  
> releases for the machines I can try, but if you really want to use  
> these on some other specific platform, drop me a note and I'll  
> prepare a release build for it.

I now realize that it can be way easier for you to try atf because I  
recently disabled the build of the libatf shared library (so you  
don't need anything in specific paths).  Therefore, all the  
executables in tests.tgz are self-contained and should work on any  
NetBSD-current system.

So, install atf from pkgsrc (devel/atf), unpack the tests.tgz set  
(which creates the /usr/tests) and you should be able to run all of  
them.  I think this should work even in extracted out of / (e.g. in / 
tmp/usr/tests).

Be aware that there are two sh(1)-related test failures.  These  
already failed in regress/bin/sh, which just shows that we don't run  
those tests periodically!

-- 
Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmmv84@gmail.com>