[php-maint] Fixes for the PHP unit tests

[Ondřej Surý]

On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Thomas Goirand <zigo at debian.org> wrote:
>>> I'm currently trying to add the tests in the build, but one thing I'm
>>> not sure how to manage is that PHP might then build-depends on itself.
>>> Indeed, if we need phpunit to build, then phpunit depends on php. That
>>> might be very annoying for porters. Any thoughts on this?
>>
>> Could you maybe elaborate more on what phpunit is and why it would be
>> needed to build php itself?
>
> phpunit is a unit test framework. You give it some .phpt files, and then
> it tests, and compare what the script should output, and what it
> actually writes on stdout.

But you wrote about circular build-dependency php5->phpunit->php5->...

And those tests you mention are already executed in php5 build and doesn't
need phpunit (package) to be run.

O.
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Ondřej Surý <ondrej at sury.org>