Refactoring of *.test.mk

[Julio Merino]

[Fixing Garrett's address...]

On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 10:44 PM, Julio Merino <julio at meroh.net> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> [ CCing a few people directly that are probably interested. ]
>
> After the recent removal of the deprecated ATF tools from the tree, I
> have been working on a refactoring of the FreeBSD *.test.mk Makefiles
> to add various features that spilled from that change.
>
> The highlights of this work so far:
>
> - Clearly documented the interface of each *.test.mk file by putting
> the list of public variables at the top and adding comments where due.
>
> - Split the logic to build framework-less test programs into a new
> plain.test.mk file.  This is in accordance with atf.test.mk, but also
> helps clarifying the code, defining a proper interfac in bsd.test.mk
> and makes some of the other changes simpler.
>
> - Added support to generate both Atffile and Kyuafile files.
>
> - Added support to run the tests using both atf-run and kyua (from ports).
>
> You can find the relevant patches in:
> http://portal.meroh.net/~jmmv/freebsd-testing/ .
>
> The patches have been generated using quilt so take a look at the
> contents of the 'series' file to see in which order they would need to
> be applied.
>
> Each patch has a description at the top which can later be used as the
> commit log.
>
> Note that, at the moment, this can only be exercised in
> lib/libcrypt/tests/ . I actually wanted to write some tests for
> *.test.mk themselves (!) but I wouldn't want to spend time on that
> before agreeing that this structure is sensible. If it is, I might put
> the effort ;-) See the ones here
> http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/tests/share/mk/?only_with_tag=MAIN
> to get an idea of what they could look like.
>
> Anybody up for reviewing these patches and sharing their comments?
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Julio Merino / @jmmv



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