On Thu, May 06, 2021 at 11:57:58AM -0400, Dennis Clarke via bind-users wrote: > I do NOT trust a build result where I had to go hacking into all the > Makefiles just to get it to build. You install without doing testing?
I think Ondrej just meant that we haven't put much emphasis on making the tests user-friendly, since most of the time you *don't* have to hack makefiles. We generally use the tests to make sure we haven't broken something while making changes, but we're not expecting everybody to do so when installing a published release. That said, I'm *delighted* to see people running them. We seem to have inadvertently removed a nice feature when the tests were revamped a while back - it used to print a helpful message if you ran "make check" without setting up the environment first, and told you what you needed to do (specifically, "sudo sh bin/tests/system/ifconfig.sh up"). I think the message got lost when we switched to automake. Some tests will be skipped if there are missing dependencies, so you may also wish to install the Net::DNS, Net::DNS::Nameserver and XML::Simple modules for perl, and dnspython for python. -- Evan Hunt -- e...@isc.org Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. _______________________________________________ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list ISC funds the development of this software with paid support subscriptions. Contact us at https://www.isc.org/contact/ for more information. bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
