MySQL Bugs: #2044: Test suite not included with Windows binary distribution

Bug #2044	Test suite not included with Windows binary distribution
Submitted:	8 Dec 2003 6:31	Modified:	8 Dec 2003 10:09
Reporter:	Georg Scheidel	Email Updates:
Status:	Not a Bug	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Server	Severity:	S3 (Non-critical)
Version:	4.0	OS:	Windows (Windows)
Assigned to:	Greg Weir	CPU Architecture:	Any

Description:

Please refer to:
http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/running_mysqltest.html

None of the files mentioned in the following text are contained in the binary distribution packet for Windows, contrary to the statement on the documentation page:

The test system consist of a test language interpreter (mysqltest), a shell script to run all tests(mysql-test-run), the actual test cases written in a special test language, and their expected results. To run the test suite on your system after a build, type make test or mysql-test/mysql-test-run from the source root. If you have installed a binary distribution, cd to the install root (eg. /usr/local/mysql), and do scripts/mysql-test-run. All tests should succeed. If not, you should try to find out why and report the problem if this is a bug in MySQL. 

How to repeat:
Please refer to:
http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/running_mysqltest.html

Download and install the binary distribution packet for Windows ver. 4.0.

search for the above mentioned filed.

Suggested fix:
include the test suite in the binary distribution packet!

Thank for the bug report. 
Greg please take a look.

Our current suite of verification tests is not shipped with the native Windows binaries because it 
cannot be used in a native Windows environment. (The test suite does, however, work under 
Cygwin with server binaries compiled under Cygwin) 
 
A native Windows capable test suite is being worked on, and will be shipped with the Windows 
distributions as soon as it is available. Thank you for your patience.

Well, there is at least a small doc issue here.  I don't see
that the manual mentions that the test suite is Unix-only.
I'll add a note to that effect.