Re: Test harness on VMS working, 58 tests currently failing.

[John E. Malmberg]

On 3/2/2014 6:11 AM, h.becker wrote:
> On 03/01/2014 09:50 PM, John E. Malmberg wrote:
> > On 2/28/2014 8:07 PM, John E. Malmberg wrote:
> > > I have the test harness apparently working on VMS.  I need to fix up the
> > > DCL command procedure that is needed set up a number of foreign
> > > commands needed by it before submitting a patch.
>
> For which version? I assume for the current development stream from the
> git repository, correct?

This is for master of course.

> > > If no one else is interested in immediately running the test harness on
> > > VMS, I can wait on submitting a patch until I determine what is causing
> > > all the test failures.
> > >
> > > So far running the test harness on VMS will require:
> > >      Perl 5.18.1 or later.
> > >      GNV 2.1.3 or later.
> > >      Bash 4.2.45 or later.
> > >      Coreutils 8.21 or later.
>
>  From what I see, the tests are coded in perl. Can you give a short
> description for what the other stuff is needed?

The make scripts expect a number of GNU utilities to be present and for 
Perl to use UNIX filename syntax.

The following commands are used by makefiles in the tests.

ar, cat, cc, cp, diff, echo, false, mkdir, rm, sleep, sh, and touch.

GNV provides the ar, and cc commands.  I have not updated them yet.

The bash in GNV is ancient and buggy.  The Bash 4.2.45 is much more 
reliable.

Coreutils supplies the rest of the utilities.  While they are also 
supplied by GNV, the Coreutils kit is more up to date with significant 
bug fixes.  Example: rm -rf actually works.

It appears that GNU make on VMS is attempting to emulate touch.  This is 
showing up in several test failures where the touch command is used in 
the makefile.  So it looks like that emulation needs to be improved.

So I will need to have a DCL procedure set these up as foreign commands 
temporarily before running the run_make_tests.pl.  I have not yet 
finished that script.

My plan get the tests that can be run to pass before merging in the GNV 
fork which runs the Bash shell from GNU Make.

Regards,
-John