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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] test: replace gtester with a TAP driver
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Thomas Huth |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] test: replace gtester with a TAP driver |
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Fri, 7 Dec 2018 07:15:26 +0100 |
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On 2018-12-06 22:50, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> gtester is deprecated by upstream glib (see for example the announcement
> at https://blog.gtk.org/2018/07/11/news-from-glib-2-58/) and it does
> not support tests that call g_test_skip in some glib stable releases.
>
> glib suggests instead using Automake's TAP support, which gtest itself
> supports since version 2.38 (QEMU's minimum requirement is 2.40).
> We do not support Automake, but we can use Automake's code to beautify
> the TAP output. I chose to use the Perl copy rather than the shell/awk
> one, with some changes so that it can accept TAP through stdin, in order
> to reuse Perl's TAP parsing package. This also avoids duplicating the
> parser between tap-driver.pl and tap-merge.pl.
>
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden>
> ---
> v1->v2: show failures even in non-verbose mode
> show executable name next to PASS/FAIL
> tweak colored output
> improved support for "make -k check"
> switch license blurb to https
> support TAP version line
> removed Eamcs epilogs
I gave it a quick try, and it seems to work fine. And I guess it's also
the best self-contained option that we currently have, so:
Acked-by: Thomas Huth <address@hidden>
Tested-by: Thomas Huth <address@hidden>