[PATCH] Add script to run basic tests with all supported HWF combinations

[Werner Koch]

Hi!

I indeed think that this test is very useful.

On Sun, 18 Jun 2017 10:23, jussi.kivilinna at iki.fi said:

> +++ b/tests/basic_all_hwfeature_combinations.sh
> @@ -0,0 +1,73 @@
> +#!/bin/bash

Unfortunately we can't depend on bash.  There are enough systems w/o
bash installed.

> +#  For example for Windows executables: BINEXT=.exe
> +if [ "x$BINEXT" != "x" ] && [ -e "tests/version$BINEXT" ]; then
> +	binext="$BINEXT"
> +else
> +	binext=""

Hmmm, running the script on Windows would require the installation of a
Unix shell.  That is too troublesome.  With the new gcry_get_config
fucntion we can get the features form a C program and the we would only
need to fork/exec - oh well, not on Windows :-(.

tests/random also forks but skips these checks on Windows.  Which it
should not.  To avoid cluttering all code with a platform dependent
implemtation of a spawing function I would suggest to wait until we have
put such a function into libgpgrt (aka libgpg-error).  We plan this
because we several such spawning implementations in the GnuPG stack and
libgpgrt is a common dependency of all.

If you want to push your change, I would suggest to do it as
maintainer-only tool _for now_ so that it is not run by "make check".


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner

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