Re: How to run specific tests

[Gary V. Vaughan]

On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 03:16:55PM -0500, Robert Boehne wrote:
> How can I run specific tests? i.e. only one of the
> tests that are run with "make check"?
> I have my AIX w/ g++ port down to three failed tests,
> hardcode.test, and two others.  I tried to comment
> out the ones that passed in the Makefile, but they
> depend on each other, and that made others, that
> previously passed, fail.  It takes so long to run
> all the tests that it'll be weeks before I finish!

The incantation from the command line is:

$ env VERBOSE=1 make check TESTS='foo.test bar.test'

If you try to run a test which depends on another in this way, it
should tell you what the missing dependencies are (if it doesn't, that
is a bug!).

Cheers,
        Gary.
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