Re: [exim-dev] Preliminary testing of a new Exim test suite

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: John Jetmore
CC: exim-dev
Subject: Re: [exim-dev] Preliminary testing of a new Exim test suite
On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, John Jetmore wrote:

> OK, I admit to being semi braindead on this one, but it still seems like
> something needs to be cleaned up here. The test suite is trying to run
> IPV6 tests because my machine has IPV6 interfaces, but the exim binary I'm
> using isn't compiled w/ HAVE_IPV6=yes.


Fixed that one after Daniel's message - I'll look at your patch to see
how it differs from what I did.

> 2) Perhaps HAVE_IPV6 should be added to OS/Makefile-Darwin? I compiled in
> IPv6 support just by adding it, no extra libs needed, and every version of
> Darwin that I can remember had IPv6 support. Not sure what the pros and
> cons are there.


Neither am I.

> 3) The "IPv6 is coming" paragraph in OS/Makefile-Default seems a little
> dated. if nothing else, the README.IPV6 file it references doesn't seem
> to exist.


I'll look at that. Thanks.

> Basic/0264 retry rules and local parts
> This is pretty clearly caused by the extremely long path. I couldn't
> reproduce when trying to reproduce in /tmp. This appears to be caused by
> the limit of retry message fields to 150 characters at line 636 of
> retry.c.


Not sure I can do anything about that, other than warn in the README
about using an excessively long path for the test suite.

Philip

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