Testsuite: Compiler info skip; whitespace stupidity.

[users/jgh/exim.git] / test / README

diff --git a/test/README b/test/README
index b93deb4c5dbeac1dc312ef98204d2723ac2ecf26..5404488d2fdffa94f2f4ee5a15c32e746335b732 100644 (file)
--- a/test/README
+++ b/test/README
@@ -69,6 +69,12 @@ In order to run this test suite, the following requirements must be met:
     tracks the two users independently.  Using the same user would result
     in false positives on some tests.
 
+    Further, some tests invoke sudo in an environment where there might not be
+    a TTY, so tickets should be global, not per-TTY.  Taking this all together
+    and assuming a user of "exim-build", you might have this in sudoers:
+
+      Defaults:exim-build     timestamp_timeout=480,!tty_tickets
+
 (3) The login under which you run the tests must be in the exim group so that
     it has access to logs, spool files, etc. The login should not be one of the
     names "userx", "usery", "userz", or a few other simple ones such as "abcd"
@@ -115,6 +121,10 @@ In order to run this test suite, the following requirements must be met:
     
      DIR:EXIM_PATH:AA:ACL:ACLRCPT:ACL_MAIL:ACL_PREDATA:ACL_RCPT:AFFIX:ALLOW:ARG1:ARG2:AUTHF:AUTHS:AUTH_ID_DOMAIN:BAD:BANNER:BB:BR:BRB:CERT:COM:COMMAND_USER:CONNECTCOND:CONTROL:CREQCIP:CREQMAC:CRL:CSS:D6:DATA:DCF:DDF:DEFAULTDWC:DELAY:DETAILS:DRATELIMIT:DYNAMIC_OPTION:ELI:ERROR_DETAILS:ERT:FAKE:FALLBACK:FILTER:FILTER_PREPEND_HOME:FORBID:FORBID_SMTP_CODE:FUSER:HAI:HAP:HARDLIMIT:HEADER_LINE_MAXSIZE:HEADER_MAXSIZE:HELO_MSG:HL:HOSTS:HOSTS_AVOID_TLS:HOSTS_MAX_TRY:HVH:IFACE:IGNORE_QUOTA:INC:INSERT:IP1:IP2:LAST:LDAPSERVERS:LENCHECK:LIMIT:LIST:LOG_SELECTOR:LS:MAXNM:MESSAGE_LOGS:MSIZE:NOTDAEMON:ONCE:ONLY:OPT:OPTION:ORDER:PAH:PEX:PORT:PTBC:QDG:QOLL:QUOTA:QUOTA_FILECOUNT:QWM:RCPT_MSG:REMEMBER:REQUIRE:RETRY:RETRY1:RETRY2:RETURN:RETURN_ERROR_DETAILS:REWRITE:ROUTE_DATA:RRATELIMIT:RT:S:SELECTOR:SELF:SERVER:SERVERS:SREQCIP:SREQMAC:SRV:STD:STRICT:SUB:SUBMISSION_OPTIONS:TIMEOUTDEFER:TIMES:TRUSTED:TRYCLEAR:UL:USE_SENDER:UTF8:VALUE:WMF:X:Y
 
+(10) Exim must *not* be built with USE_READLINE, as the test-suite's automation
+     assumes the simpler I/O model.
+     Exim must *not* be built with HEADERS_CHARSET set to UTF-8.
+
 
 
 OPTIONAL EXTRAS
@@ -137,7 +147,7 @@ RUNNING THE TEST SUITE
 (3) Run "./configure" and then "make". This builds a few auxiliary programs
     that are written in C.
 
-(4) ls -1 $PWD/confs/* >> your_TRUSTED_CONFIG_LIST_filename
+(4) echo $PWD/test-config >> your_TRUSTED_CONFIG_LIST_filename
 
 (5) Run "./runtest" (a Perl script) as described below.