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sylvestre

opened on Jan 27, 2024

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Upstream tests are here:
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/diffutils.git/tree/tests

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1. oSoMoN commented on Feb 9, 2024

   

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   I'm looking into that one.
   WIP at https://github.com/oSoMoN/uutils-diffutils/tree/run-upstream-testsuite.
2. sylvestre commented on Feb 11, 2024

   

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   thanks
   note we have these:
   https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/blob/main/util/run-gnu-test.sh
   https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/blob/main/util/build-gnu.sh
3. oSoMoN commented on Feb 11, 2024

   

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   Thanks for the pointers. I initially intended to do something similar, but the overhead of bootstrapping the upstream code base, then running configure, then building the upstream binaries, to merely run shell scripts in the tests/ subdirectory is dissuasive. On my development machine, which is reasonably powerful, it takes a significant amount of time and CPU power to do all that, and it runs a ton of checks that are irrelevant to running the tests. And as far as I can tell there is no option to skip most of the configure checks and building the upstream binaries.

   Hence my approach to only check out the tests subdirectory, and run the tests manually. This probably isn't perfect, but it is lightweight and fast, and it will spare local resources as well as github action runners' resources.
4. sylvestre

   closed this as completedin 790ef1eon Feb 17, 2024
5. oSoMoN

   added a commit that references this issue on Feb 21, 2024

   Run the GNU test suite in CI (fixes uutils#8) (uutils#13)

   This issue will close once commit 790ef1e is merged into the 'main' branch.

   790ef1e

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