[imp-hackers] Another topic: ANSI standard test suite

[Sam Steingold]

On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Juan Jose
Garcia-Ripoll<juanjose.garciaripoll at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 7:10 PM, Sam Steingold<sds at gnu.org> wrote:
>> well, in general, I am very unhappy with the current infrastructure
>> (basically, you cannot rerun a failing test in a fresh CL invocation
>> without first loading the whole test suite, which can take a long
>> time), so I would not mind ditching it in favor of something much
>> simpler, along the lines of the clisp or sacla test suites.
>
> I do not have problems running individual test files. Tests do have
> dependencies on commodity functions, such as those that implement
> compiler test cases and the like. However, once you know this, it is
> not difficult to just use a given set of tests. My script "run_this"
> lives in the ansi/ tests suite directory and I can perfectly do
> ./run-this compile-file and use it
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> cat | ecl -norc <<EOF
> (load "gclload1.lsp")

this line takes forever - at least compared to copy/pasting a few lines.


> (load "$1")
>
> (in-package :cl-test)
>
> ;;; These two tests will misbehave if the tests are being
> ;;; invoked from a file that is being loaded, so remove them
> (when *load-pathname*
>  (mapc #'regression-test:rem-test '(load-pathname.1 load-truename.1)))
>
> (time (regression-test:do-tests))
>
> (cl-user::quit)
>
> EOF




-- 
Sam Steingold <http://sds.podval.org>