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| author | Havoc Pennington <hp@redhat.com> | 2003-04-29 21:56:37 +0000 |
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| committer | Havoc Pennington <hp@redhat.com> | 2003-04-29 21:56:37 +0000 |
| commit | ae759bff511cfbd28bdb668a532ba9169d05af2d (patch) | |
| tree | e6573551a278025e7220c0788de8beb80ff2d600 /HACKING | |
| parent | 2a708128adc5e825471a3a63d6bc7a53005ae237 (diff) | |
| download | dbus-ae759bff511cfbd28bdb668a532ba9169d05af2d.tar.gz | |
2003-04-29 Havoc Pennington <hp@redhat.com>
* dbus-1.pc.in, dbus-glib-1.pc.in: rename these from
dbus-1.0.pc.in, dbus-glib-1.0.pc.in. As these change with the
parallel install API version, not with the D-BUS package version.
* HACKING: move some of README over here
* README: updates, and document API/ABI policy
* configure.in: reindentation
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@@ -98,3 +98,47 @@ To make a release of D-BUS, do the following: - post to message-bus-list@freedesktop.org announcing the release. + +Environment variables +=== + +These are the environment variables that are used by the D-BUS client library + +DBUS_VERBOSE=1 +Turns on printing verbose messages. This only works if D-BUS has been +compiled with --enable-verbose-mode + +DBUS_MALLOC_FAIL_NTH=n +Can be set to a number, causing every nth call to dbus_alloc or +dbus_realloc to fail. This only works if D-BUS has been compiled with +--enable-tests. + +DBUS_MALLOC_FAIL_GREATER_THAN=n +Can be set to a number, causing every call to dbus_alloc or +dbus_realloc to fail if the number of bytes to be allocated is greater +than the specified number. This only works if D-BUS has been compiled with +--enable-tests. + +Tests +=== + +These are the test programs that are built if dbus is compiled using +--enable-tests. + +dbus/dbus-test +This is the main unit test program that tests all aspects of the D-BUS +client library. + +dbus/bus-test +This it the unit test program for the message bus. + +test/break-loader +A test that tries to break the message loader by passing it randomly +created invalid messages. + +"make check" runs all the deterministic test programs (i.e. not break-loader). + +"make check-coverage" is available if you configure with --enable-gcov and +gives a complete report on test suite coverage. You can also run +"test/decode-gcov foo.c" on any source file to get annotated source, +after running make check with a gcov-enabled tree. |