testcurl manpage

NAME

testcurl.pl - (automatically) test curl

SYNOPSIS

testcurl.pl [options] [dir] > output

DESCRIPTION

testcurl is the master script to use for automatic distributed testing of curl from git or daily snapshots. It is written for the purpose of being run from a crontab job or similar at a regular interval. The output is suitable to be mailed to [email protected] to be dealt with automatically (make sure the subject includes the word "autobuild" as the mail gets silently discarded otherwise). The most current build status (with a reasonable backlog) is published on the curl site, at https://curl.se/dev/builds.html

options may be omitted. See --setup for what happens then.

dir is a curl source directory, possibly a daily snapshot one. Using this makes testcurl skip the autoreconf stage and thus it removes the dependency on automake, autoconf, libtool, GNU m4 and possibly a few other things.

testcurl runs autoreconf (or similar), configure, builds curl and libcurl in a separate build directory and then runs make test to test the fresh build.

OPTIONS

--configure=[options]

Configure options passed to configure.

--crosscompile

`` This is a cross-compile. Makes testcurl skip a few things.

--desc=[desc]

Description of your test system. Displayed on the build summary page on the website.

--email=[email]

Set email address to report as. Displayed in the build logs on the site.

--mktarball=[command]

Generic command to run after completed test.

--name=[name]

Set name to report as. Displayed in the build summary on the site.

--nobuildconf

Do not run autoreconf. Useful when many builds use the same source tree, as then only one need to do this. Also, if multiple processes run tests simultaneously on the same source tree (like several hosts on a NFS mounted directory), simultaneous autoreconf invokes may cause problems. (Added in 7.14.1)

--nogitpull

Do not update from git even though it is a git tree. Useful to still be able to test even though your network is down, or similar.

--runtestopts=[options]

Options that is passed to the runtests script. Useful for disabling valgrind by force, and similar.

--setup=[filename]

filename to read setup from (deprecated). The old style of providing info. If info is missing when testcurl is started, it prompts you and then stores the info in a 'setup' file, which it looks for on each invoke. Use --name, --email, --configure and --desc instead.

--target=[your os]

Specify your target environment. Recognized strings include vc, mingw32, and borland.

INITIAL SETUP

First, make a checkout from git (or you write a script that downloads daily snapshots automatically):

$ mkdir curl-testing
$ cd curl-testing
$ git clone https://github.com/curl/curl.git

With the curl sources checked out, or downloaded, you can start testing right away. If you want to use testcurl without command line arguments and to have it store and remember the config in its 'setup' file, then start it manually now and fill in the answers to the questions it prompts you for:

$ ./curl/tests/testcurl

Now you are ready to go. If you let the script run, it performs a full cycle and spit out lots of output. Mail us that output as described above.

CRONTAB EXAMPLE

The crontab could include something like this:

# autobuild curl:
0 4 * * * cd curl-testing && ./testit.sh

Where testit.sh is a shell script that could look similar to this:

mail="mail -s autobuild [email protected]"
name="--name=whoami"
email="--email=iamme@nowhere"
desc='"--desc=supermachine Turbo 2000"'
testprog="perl ./curl/tests/testcurl.pl $name $email $desc"
opts1="--configure=--enable-debug"
opts2="--configure=--enable-ipv6"
#run  first test
$testprog $opts1 | $mail
#run  second test
$testprog $opts2 | $mail