'make test' or 'make selftest' in source3?

[Jeremy Allison]

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 02:37:51AM +0200, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 21:24 -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> > On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 11:52:41AM +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > > Given the work I'm doing on s3compat, I want to be careful not to break
> > > anything in the source3/ and common code that I may modify.
> > > 
> > > So far, I've been doing that verification with 'make test', but there is
> > > also 'make selftest'.  Which should I be using?  What is the different
> > > between them, and how can we eventually get to having just one test
> > > target?
> > 
> > I always use "make test", I think Guenther uses "make selftest".
> "make test" is the old-style shell script, "make selftest" uses the same
> (perl-based) infrastructure as Samba 4. The latter gives more granular
> feedback and allows running individual tests. 
> 
> Now that the Samba 3 build depends on perl anyway (for pidl), would it
> perhaps be possible to deprecate "make test" in favor of "make
> selftest" ?

Sure, I'll just have to learn where to add my tests again.
There are some tests I added into "make test" I'd like
to keep - I'll bug Guenther to get anything I need migrated
over. Is it possible to run make selftest as root ? There
are some (non mandatory) tests that need this.

Jeremy.