June 2001
Intermediate to advanced
688 pages
19h 18m
English
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Running the Test Suite Under Windows
To build the test suite on Win32 platforms, you will need to configure Tcl support. You will also need sufficient main memory (at least 64MB) and disk (around 100MB of disk will be sufficient). For main memory, 32MB is too small; we recommend at least 64MB.
Building the Software Needed by the Tests
There are bugs in some versions of Tcl that may cause the test suite to hang on Windows/NT 4.0. Tcl version 8.4 (currently available as an alpha release) has fixed the problem, or there are patches available for Tcl 8.3.2 (see bug #119188 in the Tcl SourceForge database). Note that if you want to run the test suite against a Debug version of Berkeley DB, you need to build a Debug version of Tcl. This involves ...