Re: [Firebird-test] How to make Sean feel like an idiot...

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

Mark,

On Monday, August 27, 2001, at 09:28 PM, Mark O'Donohue wrote:

> Leyne, Sean wrote:
>
>> How to make Sean feel like an idiot in 3 easy steps...
>>
>> {Fuck!!!! Somebody just shoot me and but me out
>> of my misery!}
>>
>
> Ok let me revise and move some of the details around based on our new 
> configuration.
>
> Previously I got the CF_ISQL series to run with minimal trouble, and 
> they all passed.  I did modify some files to point to win32 specific 
> stuff, but this was early days, and the instructions were for unix.
> The tests that need to compile code I didn't try, in principle there 
> should not be too many problems, since we spawn a shell and I even ran 
> the MS Visual c++ 6.0 compiler but I didn't go too far, mainly i wanted 
> to see if it was possible.
>
> To run it once the environment variables point towards the right 
> ISQL.EXE file etc, it's really just a matter of typing in $make or 
> $runtest.
>
> But wait a bit (a day or so, for me to get time to rewrite the notes 
> and to give it a rough try - Im a bit busy currently), and with a 
> little bit of help, I feel we'll be able to get it working like a charm.
>
> [...]

I just committed the set of files needed to get autoconf working with 
the dejagnu testing stuff.  It appears to work well on my machine at 
home.  I'm sure it (configure.in, etc) will need a little tweaking to 
get right, but I think in the long run having something autoconf based 
will make handling different install situations much easier.

-John