Xapian devel - Jan 2015 - Xapian Code Build Help Required from Git

Hi,

I am graduate student from Pakistan with research interests lying in
machine learning and information retrieval. I would like to contribute to
Xapian in bug fixes. For that matter, I need help to get started.

I have successfully checked out and build the code . Can you please guide
me regarding documentation (existing code) and generation of test cases?



Regards,
Saad Ahmed
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On 21 Jan 2015, at 11:11, Saad Ahmed <ch.saad.ahmed at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have successfully checked out and build the code . Can you please guide
me regarding documentation (existing code) and generation of test cases?
I?m not sure what you?re asking for. There?s information about the test suite in
xapian-core/HACKING (which you should read anyway), which also points to
xapian-core/docs/tests.html, which is available online at
<http://xapian.org/docs/tests> and provides some suggestions on how to
write tests for Xapian.

J

-- 
 James Aylett, occasional trouble-maker
 xapian.org

Please keep replies on-list so everyone can help and benefit.

On 29 Jan 2015, at 17:26, Saad Ahmed <ch.saad.ahmed at gmail.com> wrote:
> An issue I am currently facing is regarding testcases. When run the
testcases(to check everything works fine before making changes), it says 3 out
of 6 tests fail. I haven't yet been able to figure out the issue.
> 
> I discussed this issue with olly and emailed on xapian-devel at
lists.xapian.org with subject "TestCases Failure?.
Okay, then you already have a thread and Olly has been trying to help you.
Opening another email thread losing the context of that conversation, which
makes it harder for anyone to help you. In any case, I?d wait for a reply to
your previous email.

J

-- 
 James Aylett, occasional trouble-maker
 xapian.org