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Chicken scheme and a number of eggs are required for building megatest. See the file utils/installall.sh for an automated way to install the dependancies on Linux.
Chicken scheme and a number of eggs are required for building megatest. See the file utils/installall.sh for an automated way to install the dependencies on Linux.
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Run “make test” to create the megatest exectutable. You may wish to copy the executable to a centrally accessible location.
Run “make test” to create the megatest executable. You may wish to copy the executable to a centrally accessible location.
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# Fields are the keys under which your test runs are organised
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<a class="toc" name="toc-Subsection-0.3.2">0.3.2</a> megatest.config settings
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<a class="toc" name="toc-Subsubsection-0.3.2.1">0.3.2.1</a> [setup]
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full path to megatest binary
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string of letters, numbers and underscore
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string of letters, numbers and underscore
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string of letters, numbers and underscore
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a valid path writable by the test launching process and by the test process
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The disk usage balancing algorithm is to choose the disk with the least space for each test run. 
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<p>Copyright (C) 2011 Matt Welland</p>
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Chicken scheme and a number of eggs are required for building megatest.
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\begin_layout Plain Layout
workhosts
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\begin_layout Plain Layout
list of hostnames to run jobs on NOT SUPPORTED RIGHT NOW
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\end_inset
</cell>
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\begin_layout Plain Layout

\end_layout

\end_inset
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\begin_layout Plain Layout
[env-override]
\end_layout

\end_inset
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\begin_layout Plain Layout
string of letters, numbers and underscore
\end_layout

\end_inset
</cell>
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\begin_layout Plain Layout
any string
\end_layout

\end_inset
</cell>
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\begin_layout Plain Layout
These are set on the test launching machine, not the test running machine.
 Typical usage is to control the host or run queue for launching tests.
 These values will not be seen by the test when it runs.
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\begin_layout Plain Layout
[disks]
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\begin_layout Plain Layout
string of letters, numbers and underscore
\end_layout

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</cell>
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\begin_layout Plain Layout
a valid path writable by the test launching process and by the test process
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\end_inset
</cell>
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\begin_layout Plain Layout
The disk usage balancing algorithm is to choose the disk with the least
 space for each test run.
 
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