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Testing

The make check command

Run make check. This will compile and execute the unit tests. If everything is OK, you should see something like this:

============================================================================
Testsuite summary for syslog-ng 3.8.0alpha0
============================================================================
# TOTAL: 82
# PASS:  82
# SKIP:  0
# XFAIL: 0
# FAIL:  0
# XPASS: 0
# ERROR: 0
============================================================================

If something goes wrong, check the logs of the tests (test-suite.log). You can debug the failing unit test with a debugger.

The make distcheck command

The make distcheck command is very similar to make check, but it also ensures that the distribution tarball can be properly used.