[Scons-dev] Getting started with the SCons code base~

[Russel Winder]

On Sat, 2014-07-12 at 11:26 -0400, William Blevins wrote:
> Is there also a guide for running the tests?  Seems there are 3 sets.
> 
> If I call "runtest.py -a", the majority of them fail probably because some
> are windows tests (and I'm running linux), I don't have TEX installed, etc.
>  Is there an easy well to run a subset (IE. all java tests or all core
> scons tests)?

The tests should cope with missing executables, associated tests should
be skipped not reported as fails. Although I find (on Debian Sid) I
sometimes get fails rather than skips. It is usually indicative of a
faulty test! (I have a few mildly problematic tests in the D tests :-(

-- 
Russel.
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