[s-xml-devel] Problem when loading the tests with the CLC

[Luca Capello]

Hi Sven!

On Sun, 14 May 2006 15:32:53 -0500, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote:
> The test suite was designed to be loaded and not compiled - that
> way, *load-pathname* is correct with respect to the needed test
> resources files.

Indeed, loading the test/all-tests.lisp file works:
=====
$ sbcl
[...]
* (asdf:oos 'asdf:load-op 's-xml)
[...]
* (load "/usr/share/common-lisp/source/s-xml/test/all-tests.lisp")

;; loading #P"/usr/share/common-lisp/source/s-xml/test/test-xml.lisp"
;; loading #P"/usr/share/common-lisp/source/s-xml/test/test-xml-struct-dom.lisp"
;; loading #P"/usr/share/common-lisp/source/s-xml/test/test-lxml-dom.lisp"
;; loading #P"/usr/share/common-lisp/source/s-xml/test/test-sxml-dom.lisp"
T
* (quit)
=====

> Of course it would be a good idea to make an asdf of the test suite,
> and use it properly. I am not sure what the correct solution
> is. What do other CL projects do in similar cases ? Isn't there a
> way to prevent asdf from compiling certain files - maybe that could
> be a solution ?

I'm not an ASDF expert, maybe Peter could be more helpful.

The other CL projects having a test suite I know (mostly the BESE
software at [1]) use ASDF-compiling files and AFAIK from reading the
ASDF documentation [2] [3] you could not prevent compilation of
certain files (which indeed should be the best solution).

I think that in the meantime I'll provide a note in the README.Debian
explaining how to load the test/all-tests.lisp file.

Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca

[1] http://common-lisp.net/projects/bese/
[2] http://constantly.at/lisp/asdf/
[3] http://common-lisp.net/~mmommer/asdf-howto.shtml
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