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                            C TAP Harness 4.0
               (C harness for running TAP-compliant tests)
               Maintained by Russ Allbery <eagle@eyrie.org>

  Copyright 2000-2001, 2004, 2006-2016 Russ Allbery <eagle@eyrie.org>.
  Copyright 2006-2009, 2011-2013 The Board of Trustees of the Leland
  Stanford Junior University.  This software is distributed under a
  BSD-style license.  Please see the section LICENSE below for more
  information.

BLURB

  C TAP Harness is a pure-C implementation of TAP, the Test Anything
  Protocol.  TAP is the text-based protocol used by Perl's test suite.
  This package provides a harness similar to Perl's Test::Harness for
  running tests, with some additional features useful for test suites in
  packages that use Autoconf and Automake, and C and shell libraries to
  make writing TAP-compliant test programs easier.

DESCRIPTION

  This package started as the runtests program I wrote for INN in 2000 to
  serve as the basis for a new test suite using a test protocol similar to
  that used for Perl modules.  When I started maintaining additional C
  packages, I adopted runtests for the test suite driver of those as well,
  resulting in further improvements but also separate copies of the same
  program in different distributions.  The C TAP Harness distribution
  merges all the various versions into a single code base that all my
  packages can pull from.

  C TAP Harness provides a full TAP specification driver (apart from a few
  possible edge cases) and has additional special features for supporting
  builds outside the source directory.  It's mostly useful for packages
  using Autoconf and Automake and because it doesn't assume or require
  Perl.

  The runtests program can be built with knowledge of the source and build
  directory and pass that knowledge on to test scripts, and will search
  for test scripts in both the source and build directory.  This makes it
  easier for packages using Autoconf and Automake and supporting
  out-of-tree builds to build some test programs, ship others, and run
  them all regardless of what tree they're in.  It also makes it easier
  for test cases to find their supporting files when they run.

  Also included in this package are C and shell libraries that provide
  utility functions for writing test scripts that use TAP to report
  results.  The C library also provides a variety of utility functions
  useful for test programs running as part of an Automake-built package:
  finding test data files, creating temporary files, reporting output from
  external programs running in the background, and similar common
  problems.

REQUIREMENTS

  C TAP Harness requires a C compiler to build.  Any ISO C89 or later C
  compiler on a system supporting the Single UNIX Specification, version 3
  (SUSv3) should be sufficient.  This should not be a problem on any
  modern system.  The test suite and shell library require a
  Bourne-compatible shell.  Outside of the test suite, C TAP Harness has
  no other prerequisites or requirements.

  To run the test suite, you will need Perl plus the Perl module
  Test::More, which comes with Perl 5.8 or later.  The following
  additional Perl modules will be used by the test suite if present:

  * Test::Pod
  * Test::Spelling

  All are available on CPAN.  Those tests will be skipped if the modules
  are not available.

  To bootstrap from a Git checkout, or if you change the Automake files
  and need to regenerate Makefile.in, you will need Automake 1.11 or
  later.  For bootstrap or if you change configure.ac or any of the m4
  files it includes and need to regenerate configure or config.h.in, you
  will need Autoconf 2.64 or later.  Perl is also required to generate
  manual pages from a fresh Git checkout.

BUILDING

  You can build C TAP Harness with the standard commands:

      ./configure
      make

  If you are building from a Git clone, first run ./bootstrap in the
  source directory to generate the build files.  Building outside of the
  source directory is also supported, if you wish, by creating an empty
  directory and then running configure with the correct relative path.

  Pass --enable-silent-rules to configure for a quieter build (similar to
  the Linux kernel).  Use make warnings instead of make to build with full
  compiler warnings (requires either GCC or Clang and may require a
  relatively current version of the compiler).

  Installing C TAP Harness is not normally done.  Instead, see the section
  on using the harness below.

TESTING

  C TAP Harness comes with a test suite, which you can run after building
  with:

      make check

  If a test fails, you can run a single test with verbose output via:

      ./runtests -b `pwd`/tests -s `pwd`/tests -o <name-of-test>

  Do this instead of running the test program directly since it will