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| author |  Jarkko Kniivilä <jkniiv@gmail.com> | 2015-09-07 23:43:02 +0300 |
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| committer |  Mike Burns <mike@mike-burns.com> | 2015-11-01 16:54:34 +0100 |
| commit | 5f592878eed79dd28f9f93418f9456185fd21ac9 (patch) | |
| tree | 1e79fe49cbac3485bb0d25df3e9aca1f814d1e6e /CONTRIBUTING.md | |
| parent | 39a32b9295c10176eeca3f21534caa0209cb1172 (diff) | |
Do not depend on readlink(1) or -q
Solaris 10 lacks readlink(1). Additionally, its different grep(1) and
diff(1) do not take a `-q` flag.
Use a Perl one-liner instead of readlink(1) which is missing on Solaris 10.
Also because /usr/bin/grep and diff(1) don't understand the `-q` option, make
them go quiet by redirecting stdout to `/dev/null` instead.
The Perl dependency only exists in the test suite, so it does not incur
a runtime penalty for end users.
This is to work around the fact that readlink(1) is missing on Solaris.
The tradeoff is: on Solaris, installing third-party software (readlink)
is a pain, whereas on e.g. FreeBSD installing third-party software
(Perl) is simple and common.
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diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md index 59d240d..31eb49b 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTING.md +++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md @@ -57,6 +57,9 @@ The test suite uses [cram][]. It is an integration suite, meaning the programs are exercised from the outside and assertions are made only on their output or effects. +The test suite requires Perl with the `Cwd` module. It expects to find Perl as +`perl` in `$PATH`. + All tests can be run like so: $ make check |