--- embedaddon/libxml2/README.tests 2012/02/21 23:37:58 1.1.1.1 +++ embedaddon/libxml2/README.tests 2013/07/22 01:22:21 1.1.1.2 @@ -14,17 +14,26 @@ program has a different testing purpose: The command: + make check +or make -f Makefile.tests check should be sufficient on an Unix system to build and exercise the tests for the version of the library installed on the system. Note however that there isn't backward compatibility provided so if the installed -version is older to the testsuite one, failing to compile or run the tests +version is older than the testsuite one, failing to compile or run the tests is likely. In any event this won't work with an installed libxml2 older than 2.6.20. -Building on other platfroms should be a matter of compiling the C files + +Building on other platforms should be a matter of compiling the C files like any other program using libxml2, running the test should be done simply by launching the resulting executables. +Also note the availability of a "make valgrind" target which will run the +above tests under valgrind to check for memory errors (but this relies +on the availability of the valgrind command and take far more time to +complete). + Daniel Veillard -Thu Jul 24 2008 +Mon May 7 2012 +