r22464 - gnucash/trunk/src/backend/dbi/test - Enable and correct all store-and-reload basic tests

[Derek Atkins]

John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> writes:

>>> So in order to make sure there wasn't something bad in my build
>>> tree, I made new 'gnucash-clean' and 'gnucash-clean-build'
>>> directories, checked-out a fresh set of sources and rebuilt
>>> it. "make" worked, but I got the same result with "make check". Does
>>> 'Error 143' mean anything to you?
>> 
>> I'm also building out of tree. I remember I had to make a softlink to
>> the xml test file from the source directory to the build directory
>> before the tests worked. This may have to be corrected in the build
>> scripts.
>
> Ah, that's the likely culprit. There's an XML file that's loaded by
> the XML backend, and the test will program will crash if it can't find
> the file. Before my last round of changes the test program didn't even
> try to load because the xml backend wasn't loaded. There weren't any
> asserts to check that it had, so it would always pass without actually
> testing anything. Odd, though, that you're getting that weird error
> message instead of the assert message from checking for backend errors
> right after trying to load the file.

Perhaps change the test to use ${srcdir}/...

> Regards,
> John Ralls

-derek

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