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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 check
   18: or
   19:   make -f Makefile.tests check
   20: 
   21: should be sufficient on an Unix system to build and exercise the tests
   22: for the version of the library installed on the system. Note however
   23: that there isn't backward compatibility provided so if the installed
   24: version is older than the testsuite one, failing to compile or run the tests
   25: is likely. In any event this won't work with an installed libxml2 older
   26: than 2.6.20.
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   28: Building on other platforms should be a matter of compiling the C files
   29: like any other program using libxml2, running the test should be done
   30: simply by launching the resulting executables.
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   32: Also note the availability of a "make valgrind" target which will run the
   33: above tests under valgrind to check for memory errors (but this relies
   34: on the availability of the valgrind command and take far more time to
   35: complete).
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   37: Daniel Veillard
   38: Mon May  7 2012
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