RE: Questions about split client/host in runtests

> From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
> On Fri, 21 Jun 2019, Stephan Szabo via curl-library wrote:
>
> > We're starting to maintain an internal cross-compiled port for libcurl
> > and we've started getting tests running using the split client/host
> > support in runtests, but we had a question about the feature checking
> > done by the script.
>
> Cool! I'm sure you might end up needing to fix the scripts a bit to get that
> going.

Yeah and for the actual test executables. Our setup is particularly weird
so we always have to do a bunch of changes for these kinds of things in
normal libraries.

> > When checking for features, is the intent that these are checked on
> > the client or that the client and the host have the same feature set
> available?
>
> Okay with this terminology:
>
> client - the machine that runs curl
>
> host - the machine that runs the test suite
>
> ... the script should only care about the features of the client's curl
> installation. I don't think the host should even have to have curl installed.
>
> > It seems like curl -version is run on the client, but server/disabled
> > and curl -M (for manual support check) is currently run on the host.
>
> I'd say that's a result of us basically never running it on host/client like this so
> these mistakes can easily slip in without us noticing!

Ah, cool, in that case, I'll get a PR up next week for it then.

Thanks,
Stephan

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Received on 2019-06-22