source: chapter08/check.xml@ 76ef88ee

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<sect1 id="ch-system-check" role="wrap">
  <?dbhtml filename="check.html"?>

  <sect1info condition="script">
    <productname>check</productname>
    <productnumber>&check-version;</productnumber>
    <address>&check-url;</address>
  </sect1info>

  <title>Check-&check-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="ch-system-check">
    <primary sortas="a-Check">Check</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title/>

    <para>Check is a unit testing framework for C.</para>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
      <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>&check-fin-sbu;</seg>
        <seg>&check-fin-du;</seg>
      </seglistitem>
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  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of Check</title>

    &update-config-text;

<screen><userinput remap="pre">tar &update-config-arg;</userinput></screen>

    <para>Prepare Check for compilation:</para>

<screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static</userinput></screen>

    <para>Build the package:</para>

<screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>

    <para>Compilation is now complete.  To run the Check test suite, issue the
    following command:</para>

<screen><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen>

<!--    <para>Note that the Check test suite may take a relatively long
    (up to 4 SBU) time.</para>
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    <para>Install the package:</para>

    <screen><userinput remap="install">make docdir=/usr/share/doc/check-&check-version; install</userinput></screen>

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    <title>Contents of Check</title>

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      <segtitle>Installed program</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed library</segtitle>

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        <seg>checkmk</seg>
        <seg>libcheck.so</seg>
      </seglistitem>
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    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="checkmk">
        <term><command>checkmk</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Awk script for generating C unit tests for use with the Check
          unit testing framework</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-check checkmk">
            <primary sortas="b-checmk">checkmk</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="libcheck">
        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libcheck.so</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Contains functions that allow Check to be called from a test
          program</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-check libcheck">
            <primary sortas="c-libcheck">libcheck</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

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