Re: [Firebird-test] Testing Firbird

[John B. <bel...@cs...>]

Sean,

On Monday, August 27, 2001, at 11:12 AM, Leyne, Sean wrote:

> John,
>
> I am very pleased to hear of your progress with the new TCS suite.

But my platform support has suffered, along with the bug fixes I should 
be doing :-(

>
> I appreciate that we will probably never be able to elimate the need for
> cygwin on Windows, and can live with that.
>
> The fact that the new suite does not require the database to be running
> and provides the hope of being able to run the tests without a compiler
> and to test an engine build is a FANTASTIC step!

The next question is does cygwin come with the gcc compiler?  If so just 
installing cygwin may provide sufficient tools to run the full test 
suite.  Although I don't know if we want the added dependency.

>
> Now all I need is a set of installation/configuration instructions (TCS
> for Dummies) and a zip/tarball of the ISQL sub series...  then this
> 'idiot' can begin to run the tests and work with others to expand there
> scope.

Well, all the files are in the TCS module, in the deja-testsuite 
directory.  I haven't combed through them to figure out which ones 
require a compiler and which ones don't.  Likely candidates for one that 
do are all the tests that start with "C_", for example "C_SQL_JOIN".  As 
for the instructions I can provide you with the Darwin 
instructions :-).  I don't know how to make it work on win32.  I don't 
even have access to a win32 machine (and I prefer to keep it that 
way :-).  Mark O. had an earlier version of tcs.exp working on win32, so 
for the time being he will be a better resource for that effort.

-John