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These are my thoughts on adding a test harness to run tests instead of using automake. The aim of this exercise is to allow us to run the full test suite on an installed copy of libguestfs. Another aim is to allow us to work around all the limitations and problems of automake. The first patch makes an observation that since the ./run script sets up $PATH to contain all the directories

This is a more complete patch to add the test harness. The only parts missing now are the language bindings (except OCaml). The language bindings need a bit more thought. At the moment most language binding tests are done through some sort of shell script like perl/run-perl-tests which either runs each test itself or uses some language-specific machinary to run each test. The problem with that

Since v2: - Add perl tests. - Reworked and fixed the tests for virt-builder. - Some further minor bug fixes.

Since v3: - A large number of fixes, especially for running the tests on installed libguestfs. - Fixed EXTRA_DIST rules throughout. - Extra patch 17/17 which is a tidy-up of the generated XML listing guests. Rich.