Re: GSOC Build tests

[Werner LEMBERG]

Hello Greg,


> Over the past couple weeks I've converted the build tests to use
> autotools for the three desktop OSes. I've managed to leave the
> cmake tests intact too.  I also now have demos building against the
> freetype version pulled in the CI.

Thanks!

> I wasted quite a bit of time trying to get autotools to work with
> MSVC to no avail so if anyone has had success with it please let me
> know.

I believe that the current git versions of the autotools have better
support for MSVC, but I'm not sure about that.  However, I agree that
you shouldn't spend time on this.

> You can see a preview of the updated build tests here:
> https://dev.azure.com/fundies/freetype2/_build/results?buildId=195

Great!

> Over the coming week I plan to write some functionality tests. I
> believe my best course of action for this is just to use the
> existing freetype demo programs in tandem with some bash scripting
> to check for inconsistencies in various fonts between commits. I
> will hope to have some tests and some of the UI for manual
> inspection of failures ready by early next week.

Looks very promising, thanks!  If there are any patches you want me to
apply to master, please send them to the list.


    Werner