LFS Book consistency - packages without a testsuite

[chris@…]

For packages that don't have a testsuite, sometimes the book specifies "This package does not come with a testsuite" but sometimes it just says nothing. Here's the list of packages that don't have a testsuite but it's not stated in the book...

Chapter 5: DejaGNU Gettext (well the gettext packages does have one, I assume it just shouldn't be run when only compiling one program?)

Chapter 6: Mktemp Iana-Etc Readline Less Groff Inetutils IPRoute2 File Kbd Gzip Hotplug Man Procps Psmisc Shadow Sysklogd Sysvinit

[Matthew Burgess]

Thanks Chris. It is possible to test msgfmt, though it's a little long-winded:

make -C intl libgnuintl.la make -C tests TESTS="msgfmt-1 msgfmt-2 msgfmt-3 msgfmt-4 msgfmt-5 msgfmt-6 msgfmt-7 msgfmt-8 msgfmt-9 msgfmt-10 msgfmt-11 msgfmt-12 msgfmt-13 msgfmt-properties-1 msgfmt-qt-1" check

Not sure how best to phrase that! The rest of the packages are dealt with in my local copy, and I'll commit them once I (or someone else!) figures out how to explain why we don't bother with gettext's testsuite.

[steve.crosby@…]

how about:

Because we only install one program from the gettexst suite, and that only to satisfy a build dependancy for xyz, we don't bother performing the test suites in this chapter. When we install the full gettext package in a later chaprter, we recommend running the testsuite.

[chris@…]

Hmmm, it seems DejaGNU does have a testsuite - it's mentioned on the <a href="​http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/general/prog.html">DejaGNU page in BLFS</a>.

[chris@…]

Guess HMTL code doesn't work here. :p