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| >Getting DejaGnu up and running</H1 |
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| >This chapter was originally written by Niklaus Giger (ngiger@mus.ch) because he lost a week to figure out how DejaGnu works and how to write a first test.</P |
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| >Follow these instructions as closely a possible in order get a good insight into how DejaGnu works, else you might run into a lot of subtle problems. You have been warned.</P |
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| >It should be no big problems installing DejaGnu using your package manager or from the source code. Under a Debian/GNU/Linux systems just type (as root) <TABLE |
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| >apt-get dejagnu</PRE |
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| >. These examples were run on a primary machine with a AMD K6 and a Mac Powerbook G3 serving as a remote target.</P |
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| > The tests for Windows were run under Windows NT using the actual Cygwin version (1.3.x as of October 2001). It's target system was a PPC embedded system running vxWorks.</P |
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| >Create a new user called "dgt" (DejaGnuTest), which uses bash as it login shell. PS1 must be set to '\u:\w\$ ' in its ~/.bashrc. Login as this user, create an empty directory and change the working directory to it. e.g</P |
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| >dgt:~$ mkdir ~/dejagnu.test |
| dgt:~$ cd ~/dejagnu.test</PRE |
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| >Now you are ready to test DejaGnu's main program called runtest. The expecteted output is shown</P |
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| >Example 1. Runtest output in a empty directory</B |
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| >dgt:~/dejagnu.test$ runtest |
| WARNING: Couldn't find the global config file. |
| WARNING: No tool specified Test |
| Run By dgt on Sun Nov 25 17:07:03 2001 Native configuration is i586-pc-linux-gnu |
| === tests === |
| Schedule of variations: unix |
| Running target unix Using /usr/share/dejagnu/baseboards/unix.exp as board description file for target. |
| Using /usr/share/dejagnu/config/unix.exp as generic interface file for target. |
| ERROR: Couldn't find tool config file for unix. |
| === Summary ===</PRE |
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| >We will show you later how to get rid of all the WARNING- and ERROR-messages. The files testrun.sum and testrun.log have been created, which do not interest us at this point. Let's remove them.</P |
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| >:~/dejagnu.test$ rm testrun.sum testrun.log</PRE |
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| >Windows</H2 |
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| >On Windows systems DejaGnu is part of a port of a lot of Unix tools to the Windows OS, called Cygwin. Cygwin may be downloaded and installed from a mirror of http://www.cygwin.com/. All examples were also run on Windows NT. If nothing is said, you can assume that you should get the same output as on a Unix system.</P |
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| >You will need a telnet daemon if you want to use a Windows box as a remote target. There seems to be a freeware telnet daemon at http://www.fictional.net/.</P |
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| >Getting the source code for the calc example</H2 |
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| >If you are running a Debian distribution you can find the examples under /usr/share/doc/dejagnu/examples. |
| These examples seem to be missing in Red Hat's RPM. |
| In this case download the sources of DejaGnu and adjust the pathes to the DejaGnu examples accordingly.</P |
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