Re: [HACKERS] vcregress support for single TAP tests

On 04/28/2017 08:54 AM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
> On 04/26/2017 10:32 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> On 4/23/17 17:09, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>>> Here's a patch that will allow calling vcregress.pl to run a single TAP
>>> test set. It would work like this:
>>>
>>>
>>>     vcregress.pl src/test/recover true
>>>
>>>
>>> The second argument if true (in the perl sense, of course) would trigger
>>> a temp install before running the tests. It defaults to off, in an
>>> attempt to minimize the unnecessary running of installs.
>> Seems kind of weird to have that functionality only for the tap tests,
>> though.
>>
>
>
> Yeah, you're right, I think we'd be much better mimicking what the
> makefiles do and honouring the NO_TEMP_INSTALL environment variable.
> Revised patch that works that way attached.
>
> So to run an arbitrary TAP test set, you would do (for example)
>
>     vcregress.pl taptest src/test/recover
>
>


In the absence of further comments I'm going to apply this and
back-patch it so we can get a significant improvement in how the
buildfarm reports results from TAP tests, as well as increased coverage,
on Windows/MSVC machines.

cheers

andrew

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