plunit

== Installing ==

Source http://jeff.dallien.net/posts/installing-plunit-on-ubuntu
Steps to install:

0) Download SWI-Prolog:

$ git clone git://prolog.cs.vu.nl/home/pl/git/pl.git
$ cd pl/

1) Check the version of swipl:

$ swipl -v
if SWI-Prolog version 5.10.4 or above, skip to 3)

2) Update Swi-Prolog with the following steps or from INSTALL file:

In 'pl/' directory:
$ ./configure

Using synaptic, install what dependencies are needed;
I, myself, installed gcc, curl and libxpm-dev, libxt-dev, libxft-dev.

$ make
$ make check (should pass all tests)
$ sudo make install

Reinstall swi-prolog (using synaptic, you will see three of them to reinstall)

$ swipl -v (should give version 5.10.4 or above now)
$ cd packages
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install

3) Configure the plunit submodule:

In 'pl/' directory:
$ git submodule update --init packages/plunit
$ cd packages/plunit
$ autoconf
$ ./configure
$ sudo make install


== Testing after installation ==

$ cd pl/packages/plunit/examples
$ swipl
?- [simple], run_tests.

output:

% simple compiled into ex_simple 0.00 sec, 12,240 bytes
% PL-Unit: lists ........ done
% All 8 tests passed
true.


== Other problems ==

If you encounter other dependencies that are needed, while going through step 2),
it could be a good idea to do the following:
(suppose your dependency errors appear in ./configure)

$ strace -f -e open ./configure 2> out.txt

Then inspect the final lines of out.txt for errors because of not installed libraries. Good luck!