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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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>. 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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>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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>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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>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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