songsenand
/
cgal
mirror of https://github.com/CGAL/cgal
1
0
Fork 0
Code Issues Packages Projects Releases Wiki Activity

improvements

This commit is contained in:
Sébastien Loriot 2015-12-01 22:40:14 +01:00
parent a5d9601388
commit 4e3a80fc08
1 changed files with 4 additions and 3 deletions
Show Stats Download Patch File Download Diff File Expand all files Collapse all files

7
Documentation/doc/Documentation/Developer_manual/Chapter_testing.txt
View File

@ -18,12 +18,13 @@ Here is what you need:
- <i>On Windows:</i> define the environment variable `MAKE_CMD` (put the line `export MAKE_CMD=nmake` in your `$HOME/.bashrc` for VC++)
- <i>On Windows:</i> define the environment variable `CMAKE_GENERATOR` (put the line `export CMAKE_GENERATOR='-GNMake Makefiles'` in your `$HOME/.bashrc` for VC++)
- go in the directory you want to test
- Run `cgal_test_with_cmake`. This should run CMake, compile and run, and you can see what happened in the generated file `error.txt`.
- Run `cgal_test_with_cmake` in the `test` and `examples` directories of the package. This should run CMake, compile and run, and you can see what happened in the generated file `error.txt`.
\section fullTestsuite Running the Whole Testsuite
We describe here how to proceed to the testing of a full copy of `master` or `any branch` creating a flat <i>release</i>.
We describe here how to proceed to the testing of a full copy of `master` or any branch by creating a <i>flat release</i>
(that is having a layout similar to a release rather than a branch layout with header files gathered by packages).
The creation of the flat release is done using the script <code>create_internal_release</code> located in the directory `Scripts/developer_scripts`.
The creation of the flat release is done using the script `create_internal_release` located in the directory `Scripts/developer_scripts`.
Running the script with no argument will give the complete usage of this script. We only describe one way of using it.
The prerequisite is to have a checkout of the branch we want to test.