p5- port testing

[Vladimir Timofeev]

Year of silence...

Perl is a language with very mature test culture.
Why we can't utilize it?
Why we can't add regression-test target?
Can I help with this?

Mk/bsd.cran.mk has unified "regression-test" target,
Others have it in individual ports, counts:
all: 292 ports
p5: 52 ports
Why individual maintainers should invent his own "regression-test" target?

So I propose to add "regression-test" target to Mk/bsd.perl.mk
This would allow:
1. To maintainers easy test their ports
2. Build packages with more quality
3. Later we can automatically send the test failures to  CPANTS, so
the real developers of CPAN-modules can have direct feedback on errors
in their modules with freebsd

I already use modified Mk/bsd.perl.mk for some time on my system
(attached patch).


On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Steve Wills <swills at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Recently versions of ports-mgmt/tinderbox have support for TEST_DEPENDS.
> That, plus the attached patch, plus adding "export USE_PERL_TEST=yes" to
> .../tinderbox/scripts/etc/env/GLOBAL gives us the ability to automatically
> run test on p5- ports in tinderbox. Would anyone be interested in
> committing the patch to bsd.perl.mk?
>
> Also attached is a list of p5- ports that fail their "make test" with this
> enabled. I have been slowly working through this list, if anyone else is
> interested in helping out, that would be great. Usually it's just missing
> BUILD_DEPENDS or TEST_DEPENDS, but often there are more significant
> problems. The list is incomplete, this is just what I've happened to find.
>
> Steve
>
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Vladimir Timofeev <vovkasm at gmail.com>
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