On Sun, 2 Dec 2012, Jeff Shearer, CISA, CISSP wrote:

> After running make test, I received the following messages:
>
> TESTDONE: 628 tests out of 635 reported OK: 98%
> TESTFAIL: These test cases failed: 20 507 526 527 532 534 546
> TESTDONE: 779 tests were considered during 562 seconds.
>
> What does this mean? Do I need to fix something and if so how?

It means that out of the 779 existing test cases, 635 were actually run.

Our of the 635 that ran, 7 test cases failed and they are specifically
mentioned above.

If you want to go into depth and understand why they failed and if the failure
is significant, then you can do so. Those tests don't normally fail on any of
the machines I use. It is not unthinkable that they failed due to flaws or
mistakes in the test suite rather than actual problems in curl or libcurl.

For info on how to run single test cases with more output or debug etc, see
this: http://curl.haxx.se/dev/runtests.html

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  / daniel.haxx.se
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