Nicolas Williams
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This will be useful for the upcoming test-erroneous-programs improvement to --run-tests, so we can switch between the default error reporting method (print to stderr) to a method internal to --run-tests, and back. The idea is that when testing programs that are expected to compile (and link), it'd be nice if errors continue going to stderr, while when testing programs that must fail to compile (or link), the error has to be captured so it can be compared to the error expected by the test.
jq
jq is a command-line JSON processor.
If you want to learn to use jq, read the documentation at http://stedolan.github.io/jq. This documentation is generated from the docs/ folder of this repository. You can also try it online at jqplay.org.
If you want to hack on jq, feel free, but be warned that its internals are not well-documented at the moment. Bring a hard hat and a shovel. Also, read the wiki: http://github.com/stedolan/jq/wiki
If you're building directly from the latest git, you'll need flex, bison, libtool, make, autoconf and libonig installed. To build, run:
autoreconf -i
./configure
make -j8
make check
After make finishes, you'll be able to use ./jq. You can also
install it using:
sudo make install
If you're not using the latest git version but instead building a
released tarball (available on the website), then you won't need to
run autoreconf (and shouldn't), and you won't need flex or bison.
To cross-compile for OS X and Windows, see docs/Rakefile's build task and scripts/crosscompile. You'll need a cross-compilation environment, such as Mingw for cross-compiling for Windows.