Only the "client-test" executable and its test data were installed so far, in
/usr/bin resp. the doc dir. Now also test-dbus.py and testpim.py plus their
data files get installed, using a new /usr/lib/syncevolution/test directory
for all test files and commands.
"runtests.py --prebuilt" can take one or more .deb files including these
tests, will install them as the "compile" operation and then will use the
installed SyncEvolution, without overriding any paths. This relies on having
suitable rights for "dpkg" and /usr/lib/syncevolution/test; the way how that
is done in the nightly testing is via chroots where the entire file system
is writable by the normal test user.
Normal users without such write access to /usr/lib/syncevolution/test need
to copy that directory into their home directory first.
The HTML version of the .log files links to ClientTest.cpp.html,
colorizes important parts and links to the sync session
directories.
Because it is much more useful than the plain text version, the
nightly.html now links to these .html files.
ClientTest.cpp.html is built with Python pygments if installed,
otherwise some builtin fallback code is used.
All but toplevel Makefile.am are replaced with their non-recursive
counterparts. The generation of configure.in was removed (and thus
configure-{pre,post}.in are also removed) in favor of configure.ac
and m4 macros adding backend specific configure parts.
Version number is generated like in old build system.
There are still many things to improve, but for now there are no
immediate regressions. AUTOTOOLS-TODO contains a list of possible
improvements and fixes. AUTOTOOLS-TESTING contains what was tested
with current build system (configure flags, make options).
Patrick Ohly
Krzesimir Nowak