From: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:10:27 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: add checks to make sure that the test suite will be able to run.
X-Git-Tag: monkeysphere_0.20-1~23
X-Git-Url: https://codewiz.org/gitweb?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2ae935a6dbd973730cd6e6aeb5cc5bbfc54949b5;p=monkeysphere.git

add checks to make sure that the test suite will be able to run.
---

diff --git a/tests/basic b/tests/basic
index d735578..8e7f88a 100755
--- a/tests/basic
+++ b/tests/basic
@@ -14,6 +14,13 @@
 # all subcommands in this script should complete without failure:
 set -e
 
+## make sure that the right tools are installed to run the test.  the
+## test has *more* requirements than plain ol' monkeysphere:
+
+[ -x $(which socat) ] || { echo "You must have socat installed to run this test." && exit 1 }
+
+## FIXME: other checks?
+
 # gpg command for test admin user
 gpgadmin() {
     GNUPGHOME="$TEMPDIR"/admin/.gnupg gpg "$@"