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+++ b/toolsandutils/buildsystem/test/helloworld/test.pl	Tue Feb 02 01:39:43 2010 +0200
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+# Copyright (c) 2007-2009 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies).
+# All rights reserved.
+# This component and the accompanying materials are made available
+# under the terms of "Eclipse Public License v1.0"
+# which accompanies this distribution, and is available
+# at the URL "http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html".
+#
+# Initial Contributors:
+# Nokia Corporation - initial contribution.
+#
+# Contributors:
+#
+# Description:
+# hello world build test
+#
+# If we cannot build this then we probably cannot build anything...
+
+use strict;
+use Test;
+
+# how many tests do we plan to run?
+BEGIN { plan tests => 4 }
+
+# remember where we started
+use Cwd;
+my $cwd = getcwd();
+
+# change to the test data directory
+use File::Basename;
+my $dir = dirname($0);
+chdir($dir);
+print "# running in $dir\n";
+
+# remove the binaries if they already exist
+my $release = $ENV{'EPOCROOT'} . "epoc32/release";
+my @binaries = ("$release/winscw/udeb/HelloWorld.exe",
+			    "$release/winscw/urel/HelloWorld.exe",
+				"$release/armv5/udeb/HelloWorld.exe",
+				"$release/armv5/urel/HelloWorld.exe"
+			   );
+
+foreach (@binaries)
+{
+	unlink($_);
+}
+
+###############################################################################
+# THE TESTS                                                                   #
+###############################################################################
+
+# we cannot test the command return values because they are always 0
+system("bldmake bldfiles");
+system("abld build");
+
+# test for the existence of each binary file
+foreach (@binaries)
+{
+	print "# checking $_\n";
+	ok(-f $_);
+}
+
+###############################################################################
+# END OF TESTS                                                                #
+###############################################################################
+
+# change back to the starting directory
+chdir($cwd);
+