Testing the Build

The Kerberos V5 distribution comes with built-in regression tests. To run them, simply type the following command while in the top-level build directory (i.e., the directory where you sent typed make to start building Kerberos; see Doing the Build.):

     % make check
     

However, there are several prerequisites that must be satisfied first:

• Configure and build Kerberos with Tcl support. Tcl is used to drive the test suite. This often means passing --with-tcl to configure to tell it the location of the Tcl configuration script. (See See Options to Configure.)
• You have to run make install before running make check, or the test suite will often pick up the installed version of Kerberos rather than the newly built one. You can install into a prefix that isn't in the system library search path, though. This theoretically could be fixed with the appropriate environment variable magic in the test suite, but hasn't been yet.
• In order to test the RPC layer, the local system has to be running the portmap daemon and it has to be listening to the regular network interface (not just localhost).

• The DejaGnu Tests:
• The KADM5 Tests: