TestU01 for Debian GNU/Linux
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A classical search path machinery for accessing the parameters files
with extension .par as read by the `Families of Generators' modules
(chapter 5 in the TestU01 Guide within the testu01-doc debian package)
has been patched (and submitted to the upstream maintainer team). The
encoded search path list is, with `:' as list separator:
	/usr/local/testu01/param:/usr/testu01/param ,
given that /usr/testu01/param contains the parameters files shipped within
the upstream source ball. Most importanlty, we can prepend this encoded
list througth the environment variable TESTU01_FFAM_PARAM_PATH .

Note that this implemented scheme respects the original scheme in the sense
that the parameters files are first searched in the working directory, and
then along the search path list; so the brought scheme is implicitly
transparent for final users. Secondly, in the same spirit, the folder where
the parameters files was effectively found is printed as any other typical
TestU01 information.

In the same vein, the TestU01 headers are shipped system wide. That is to say,
they are gathered in the package include folder /usr/include/testu01 and they
may be included accordingly; for illustration, please have a glance to the
(patched) source examples shipped within the testu01-doc debian package and
as weel as to the accompanying Makefile.


Enjoy !

 -- Jerome Benoit <calculus@rezozer.net>  Fri, 29 Dec 2017 12:48:32 +0000




