1 README.tests 2 3 Instructions for standalone test regressions of libxml2 4 5 libxml2-tests-$version.tar.gz contains 3 standalone C programs as well 6 as a large amount of tests and results coming from libxml2 itself and 7 from W3C, NIST, Sun Microsystems, Microsoft and James Clark. Each C 8 program has a different testing purpose: 9 10 runtest.c : runs libxml2 basic internal regression tests 11 runsuite.c: runs libxml2 against external regression tests 12 testapi.c : exercises the library public entry points 13 testchar.c: exercise the check of character ranges and UTF-8 validation 14 15 The command: 16 17 make -f Makefile.tests check 18 19 should be sufficient on an Unix system to build and exercise the tests 20 for the version of the library installed on the system. Note however 21 that there isn't backward compatibility provided so if the installed 22 version is older to the testsuite one, failing to compile or run the tests 23 is likely. In any event this won't work with an installed libxml2 older 24 than 2.6.20. 25 Building on other platfroms should be a matter of compiling the C files 26 like any other program using libxml2, running the test should be done 27 simply by launching the resulting executables. 28 29 Daniel Veillard 30 Thu Jul 24 2008 31
