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| author | Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> | 2006-08-15 22:27:17 +0000 |
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| committer | Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> | 2006-08-15 22:27:17 +0000 |
| commit | 77afe31c1470a91cff10ed03bb8a104ba7a8a8f4 (patch) | |
| tree | 16afdc5b653c044126c0f00ab795c299386d503c /doc | |
| parent | 5ecffe318b6cc29df4e9024c797a345bea50c9b5 (diff) | |
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Document prerequisites for make check
Document the prerequisites for running make check, since some of them are
a bit surprising.
Ticket: new
Component: krb5-doc
Tags: pullup
Version_Reported: 1.5
Target_Version: 1.5.1
git-svn-id: svn://anonsvn.mit.edu/krb5/trunk@18441 dc483132-0cff-0310-8789-dd5450dbe970
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diff --git a/doc/build.texinfo b/doc/build.texinfo index 8e7aed92c2..f92a4d249b 100644 --- a/doc/build.texinfo +++ b/doc/build.texinfo @@ -387,6 +387,29 @@ building Kerberos; see @ref{Doing the Build}.): % make check @end example +However, there are several prerequisites that must be satisfied first: + +@itemize @bullet +@item +Configure and build Kerberos with Tcl support. Tcl is used to drive the +test suite. This often means passing @code{--with-tcl} to configure to +tell it the location of the Tcl configuration script. (See +@xref{Options to Configure}.) + +@item +You have to run @samp{make install} before running @samp{make check}, or +the test suite will often pick up the installed version of Kerberos +rather than the newly built one. You can install into a prefix that +isn't in the system library search path, though. This theoretically +could be fixed with the appropriate environment variable magic in the +test suite, but hasn't been yet. + +@item +In order to test the RPC layer, the local system has to be running the +@command{portmap} daemon and it has to be listening to the regular +network interface (not just localhost). +@end itemize + @menu * The DejaGnu Tests:: * The KADM5 Tests:: |