Re: Understanding the tests

[Tim Van Holder]

On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 16:27, Michael McLaughlin wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Apologies for a newbie question.
> 
> I downloaded GNU Bison 1.875, ran configure and then
> 
> make check > testYACC.txt
> 
> under Mac OS 10.2.4 ("freeBSD").
> 
> Judging by all the "FAILED" statements (log attached), it does not look 
> good.  However, I have no clue as to where to begin to try to understand 
> all of these tests and their results.

Actually it seems the checks are using bison from the path (i.e. bison
1.28), so lots of failures are to be expected (new input syntax, new
command line options, new message format, etc).
You should run 'make' before 'make check' - that way bison 1.875 gets
built, and tests will be run against that instead.  I suppose the
rationale here was to allow testing an installed bison; one would
normally expect 'make check' to build the application to test before
starting the tests.

-- 
Tim Van Holder <address@hidden>