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    3:    Instructions for standalone test regressions of libxml2
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    5: libxml2-tests-$version.tar.gz contains 3 standalone C programs as well
    6: as a large amount of tests and results coming from libxml2 itself and
    7: from W3C, NIST, Sun Microsystems, Microsoft and James Clark. Each C
    8: program has a different testing purpose:
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   10:   runtest.c : runs libxml2 basic internal regression tests
   11:   runsuite.c: runs libxml2 against external regression tests
   12:   testapi.c : exercises the library public entry points
   13:   testchar.c: exercise the check of character ranges and UTF-8 validation
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   15: The command:
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   17:   make -f Makefile.tests check
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   19: should be sufficient on an Unix system to build and exercise the tests
   20: for the version of the library installed on the system. Note however
   21: that there isn't backward compatibility provided so if the installed
   22: version is older to the testsuite one, failing to compile or run the tests
   23: is likely. In any event this won't work with an installed libxml2 older
   24: than 2.6.20.
   25: Building on other platfroms should be a matter of compiling the C files
   26: like any other program using libxml2, running the test should be done
   27: simply by launching the resulting executables.
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   29: Daniel Veillard
   30: Thu Jul 24 2008