Refactoring of *.test.mk

[Garrett Cooper]

> On Oct 14, 2013, at 20:24, Julio Merino <julio at meroh.net> wrote:
> 
> [Fixing Garrett's address...]
> 
>> On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 10:44 PM, Julio Merino <julio at meroh.net> wrote:
>> Hello all,
>> 
>> [ CCing a few people directly that are probably interested. ]
>> 
>> After the recent removal of the deprecated ATF tools from the tree, I
>> have been working on a refactoring of the FreeBSD *.test.mk Makefiles
>> to add various features that spilled from that change.
>> 
>> The highlights of this work so far:
>> 
>> - Clearly documented the interface of each *.test.mk file by putting
>> the list of public variables at the top and adding comments where due.
>> 
>> - Split the logic to build framework-less test programs into a new
>> plain.test.mk file.  This is in accordance with atf.test.mk, but also
>> helps clarifying the code, defining a proper interfac in bsd.test.mk
>> and makes some of the other changes simpler.
>> 
>> - Added support to generate both Atffile and Kyuafile files.
>> 
>> - Added support to run the tests using both atf-run and kyua (from ports).
>> 
>> You can find the relevant patches in:
>> http://portal.meroh.net/~jmmv/freebsd-testing/ .
>> 
>> The patches have been generated using quilt so take a look at the
>> contents of the 'series' file to see in which order they would need to
>> be applied.
>> 
>> Each patch has a description at the top which can later be used as the
>> commit log.
>> 
>> Note that, at the moment, this can only be exercised in
>> lib/libcrypt/tests/ . I actually wanted to write some tests for
>> *.test.mk themselves (!) but I wouldn't want to spend time on that
>> before agreeing that this structure is sensible. If it is, I might put
>> the effort ;-) See the ones here
>> http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/tests/share/mk/?only_with_tag=MAIN
>> to get an idea of what they could look like.
>> 
>> Anybody up for reviewing these patches and sharing their comments?
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
>> --
>> Julio Merino / @jmmv
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> -- 
> Julio Merino / @jmmv