Expose qtests through buildsystem

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 20.06.08 17:47:58, Manuel Breugelmans wrote:
> On Friday 20 June 2008 15:51:54 Matt Rogers wrote:
> > On Friday 20 June 2008 07:27:35 am Manuel Breugelmans wrote:
> > > On Friday 20 June 2008 14:19:12 Aleix wrote:
> > > > Umm... I don't know if it is a good idea to get the .shell because it
> > > > is hard to use when debugging. I can provide the needed LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> > > > information though. :P
> > > >
> > > > Bye!
> > > > Aleix
> > >
> > > Hmm thats true, well if the info is available maybe they can both be
> > > exposed (wrapped and raw exe).
> > >
> > >
> > > Manuel
> >
> > And for the record, I never use the .shell executables when running my
> > tests. I always use the regular executable and it works fine.
> 
> Well the main reason I prefer running the .shell's inside xtest is decent 
> signal handling. QProcess is so nice as to only report NormalExit/CrashExit 
> (maybe I missed something here?). QTestLib does not handle unix signals 
> properly either, which it should ... eg Check does.
> 
> So you'll have to go mess with 'QProcess::setupChildProcess' and <signal.h> to 
> distinguish between a segfault & assert. The shell has robust OS independent 
> signal handling for free, easy choice :)

Please try to keep the code free from unix-only stuff, that makes
porting to other platforms a lot harder. I'm wondering what cmake
produces on win32 actually, IIRC it doesn't create a .bat or .cmd
file...

Andreas

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