Re: MSVC buildfarm critters are not running modules' TAP tests

On 9/8/19 5:59 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
>> On 9/8/19 12:07 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> It looks to me like the reason is that src/tools/msvc/vcregress.pl's
>>> subroutine subdircheck isn't considering the possibility that
>>> subdirectories of src/test/modules contain TAP tests. The
>>> same code is used for contrib, so several existing TAP tests
>>> are being missed there too.
>> Actually, I think vcregress.pl is OK, this is a gap in the buildfarm
>> client's coverage that will be fixed when I make a new release.
> Hm. Changing the buildfarm script would be an alternative way to
> fix the issue so far as the buildfarm is concerned, but it doesn't
> seem like it provides any useful way for one to manually invoke
> the tests on Windows. Or am I missing something about how that's
> usually done?
>
>

The invocation is:

vcregress.pl taptest [ PROVE_FLAGS=xxx ] directory

directory needs to be relative to $topdir, so something like:

vcregress.pl taptest src/test/modules/test_misc

cheers

andrew

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