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This change adds a new atf-libs package that provides the libatf-c,
libatf-c++ and libatf-sh libraries by themselves, without any of the
ATF runtime tools. The atf package has been modified to only install
the runtime utilities (atf-run and atf-report being the major ones)
and depend on atf-libs.
The purpose of this change is to allow packages that install tests to
depend on a lighter-weight package, and to allow the addition of the
upcoming kyua-atf-compat package. The latter will be a package that
provides atf-run and atf-report replacements based on kyua-cli, and
therefore will conflict with the atf tools (but not the libraries).
While doing this, fix the pkgconfig overrides and ensure that we use
the right version of the ATF libraries given that disabling shared
library building appears to have been broken, possibly for a while.
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The Automated Testing Framework (ATF) is a collection of libraries and
utilities designed to ease unattended application testing in the hands of
developers and end users of a specific piece of software.
As regards developers, ATF provides the necessary means to easily create
test suites composed of multiple test programs, which in turn are a
collection of test cases. It also attempts to simplify the debugging of
problems when these test cases detect an error by providing as much
information as possible about the failure.
As regards users, it simplifies the process of running the test suites and,
in special, encourages end users to run them often: they do not need to
have source trees around nor any other development tools installed to be
able to certify that a given piece of software works on their machine as
advertised.
Yes, these are (part of) the results of my SoC 2007 project :-)
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