Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 14:28:49 -0600 From: jlemon@americantv.com (Jonathan Lemon) To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Cc: terry@lambert.org, jehamby@lightside.com, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co Subject: Re: POSIX Conformance (Unanswered in "questions" so I forwarded...) Message-ID: <199610312028.UAA00981@right.PCS> In-Reply-To: <199610310002.RAA24354@phaeton.artisoft.com>; from Terry Lambert on Oct 30, 1996 17:02:58 -0700 References: <199610301652.QAA16016@right.PCS> <199610310002.RAA24354@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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Terry Lambert writes: > > Terry Lambert writes: > > > Meanwhile, TET is a completely seperate piece of software necessary > > > for running TET-hosted test suites... like NIST/PCTS. I've already > > > suggested that someone grab the TET off of the X/Open server (where it > > > is available for anonymous FTP) and check it into the FreeBSD ports > > > tree. > > > > Which one? > > > > - TET3.0a - unavailable to non-paying customers at the moment > > - dTET2.3 - "distributed TET" > > - eTET1.10.3 - "extended TET" > > - TET1.10 - The release version > > > > Without knowing which version the NIST code requires, I'd be a little > > leery of just going in and attempting a port. > > Why? A POSIX-compliant platform is required to run all of them > without changes. That's not what I was asking. It seems pretty obvious to me that the different versions provide different feature sets, so without knowing which particular features are required by the test suite, I wouldn't know which test framework to use. > d. Test Methods for Measuring Conformance to POSIX, IEEE Std 1003.3-1991. > e. Test Methods for Measuring Conformance to POSIX.1, IEEE Std 2003.1-1992. Oh great, IEEE standards. Meaning that they aren't freely available. To clear this up, I e-mailed Martha Gray at NIST, and inquired as to which version of TET the NIST POSIX test suite required. She said that TET was _not_ required by the test suite, as it pre-dates TET. Hm. Are we talking about the same test suite here? Perhaps it would be good idea to wait until the bits are on the NIST server. -- Jonathan
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