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-#!/usr/bin/env perl
-#############################################################################
-##
-## Copyright (C) 2016 The Qt Company Ltd.
-## Contact: https://www.qt.io/licensing/
-##
-## This file is part of the test suite of the Qt Toolkit.
-##
-## $QT_BEGIN_LICENSE:GPL-EXCEPT$
-## Commercial License Usage
-## Licensees holding valid commercial Qt licenses may use this file in
-## accordance with the commercial license agreement provided with the
-## Software or, alternatively, in accordance with the terms contained in
-## a written agreement between you and The Qt Company. For licensing terms
-## and conditions see https://www.qt.io/terms-conditions. For further
-## information use the contact form at https://www.qt.io/contact-us.
-##
-## GNU General Public License Usage
-## Alternatively, this file may be used under the terms of the GNU
-## General Public License version 3 as published by the Free Software
-## Foundation with exceptions as appearing in the file LICENSE.GPL3-EXCEPT
-## included in the packaging of this file. Please review the following
-## information to ensure the GNU General Public License requirements will
-## be met: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html.
-##
-## $QT_END_LICENSE$
-##
-#############################################################################
-
-use strict;
-use Cwd;
-use warnings;
-
-# Usage: test.pl <SearchPath> <ExecutionMode> <TestResults> <Timeout [Default 300 seconds]>
-# Variable declarations to keep strict happy
-our $SEARCH_PATH;
-our $EXEC_MODE;
-our $EXE_PREFIX;
-our $EXE_SUFFIX;
-our $TIMEOUT;
-our $REPORTDIR;
-our $buryChildren;
-our $timeoutChildren;
-our $totalExecuted;
-our $totalStarted;
-our $totalTimedOut;
-our $currentDirectory;
-our $testRoot;
-
-# Where do we run this script? What directory?
-$SEARCH_PATH=$ARGV[0];
-if(!$SEARCH_PATH)
-{
-    print "Please specify the search directory! \n";
-    exit(0);
-}
-
-# We have four options:
-# 'U': Unix
-# 'W': Windows
-# 'M': Mac
-# 'E': Embedded
-$EXEC_MODE=$ARGV[1];
-if($EXEC_MODE =~ /^U$/)
-{
-    print "Using Unix execution mode\n";
-    $EXE_PREFIX="./";
-    $EXE_SUFFIX="";
-} elsif($EXEC_MODE =~ /^W$/)
-{
-    print "Using Windows execution mode\n";
-    $EXE_PREFIX="";
-    $EXE_SUFFIX=".exe";
-} elsif($EXEC_MODE =~ /^M$/)
-{
-    print "Using OSX execution mode\n";
-    $EXE_PREFIX="/Contents/MacOS/";
-    $EXE_SUFFIX=".app";
-} elsif($EXEC_MODE =~ /^E$/)
-{
-    print "Using embedded execution mode\n";
-    $EXE_PREFIX="./";
-    $EXE_SUFFIX="";
-} else {
-    print "Unknown execution mode: $EXEC_MODE \n";
-    print "Use: 'U' (Unix), 'W' (Windows), 'M' (MacOSX)\n";
-    exit(0);
-}
-# We get the current directory, we 'll need it afterwards
-$currentDirectory = getcwd();
-
-$testRoot = Cwd::abs_path($SEARCH_PATH);
-
-# We assume that by default goes to "reports" unless the user specifies it.
-$REPORTDIR = $ARGV[2];
-if(!$REPORTDIR)
-{
-    $REPORTDIR = $testRoot."/reports";
-    mkdir $REPORTDIR;
-} else {
-    mkdir $REPORTDIR;
-    $REPORTDIR = Cwd::abs_path($REPORTDIR);
-}
-
-# If given we use it, otherwise we default to 300 seconds.
-$TIMEOUT = $ARGV[3];
-if(!$TIMEOUT)
-{
-    $TIMEOUT=300;
-}
-print "Timeout value: $TIMEOUT\n";
-
-# Initialize 'global' variables
-$buryChildren = 0;
-$timeoutChildren = 0;
-$totalExecuted = 0;
-$totalStarted = 0;
-$totalTimedOut = 0;
-
-# Install signal handlers and pray for the best
-$SIG{'CHLD'} = 'handleDeath';
-$SIG{'ALRM'} = 'handleTimeout';
-
-handleDir($testRoot);
-
-print " ** Statistics ** \n";
-print " Tests started: $totalStarted \n";
-print " Tests executed: $totalExecuted \n";
-print " Tests timed out: $totalTimedOut \n";
-
-sub handleDir {
-
-    my ($dir) = @_;
-    my $currentDir = getcwd();
-
-    opendir(DIR, $dir);
-    my @files = readdir(DIR);
-    closedir DIR;
-    my $file;
-    foreach $file (@files) {
-        #skip hidden files
-        next if (substr($file,0,1) eq ".");
-
-        if ( -d $dir."/".$file) {
-            handleDir($dir."/".$file)
-        } elsif ( $file =~ /^tst_/ and -x $dir."/".$file ) {
-            chdir($dir) || die("Could not chdir to $dir");
-            executeTestCurrentDir($file);
-            chdir($currentDir);
-        }
-    }
-}
-
-sub executeTestCurrentDir {
-    my ($command) = @_;
-            print "Executing $command \n";
-            my $myPid;
-            $myPid = fork();
-            if($myPid == 0)
-            {
-                my $realCommand;
-                if($EXEC_MODE =~/^M$/)
-                {
-                    $realCommand = "./".$command.$EXE_SUFFIX.$EXE_PREFIX.$command;
-                } else {
-                    $realCommand = $EXE_PREFIX.$command.$EXE_SUFFIX;
-                }
-                my $outputRedirection = $REPORTDIR."/".$command.$EXE_SUFFIX.".xml";
-
-                if($EXEC_MODE =~ /^E$/)
-                {
-                    exec($realCommand, "-qws", "-xml", "-o", $outputRedirection);
-                } else {
-                    exec($realCommand, "-xml", "-o", $outputRedirection);
-                }
-                exit(0);
-            } elsif($myPid > 0 )
-            {
-                $totalStarted++;
-                alarm($TIMEOUT);
-                while(!$buryChildren && !$timeoutChildren)
-                {
-                    sleep 10;
-                }
-                if($buryChildren)
-                {
-                    my $value;
-                    $value = waitpid($myPid , 0);
-                    $buryChildren = 0;
-                    $totalExecuted++;
-                } elsif($timeoutChildren)
-                {
-                    kill 'INT', $myPid;
-                    $timeoutChildren = 0;
-                    $totalTimedOut++;
-                } else {
-                    # What?? If we get here we need to abort, this is totally unexpected
-                    print "Wrong condition evaluated, aborting to avoid damages\n";
-                    exit(0);
-                }
-                # We need to handle children killed because of timeout
-                if($buryChildren)
-                {
-                    my $value;
-                    $value = waitpid($myPid , 0);
-                    $buryChildren = 0;
-                }
-            } else {
-                print "Problems trying to execute $command";
-            }
-
-}
-
-# This procedure takes care of handling dead children on due time
-sub handleDeath {
-    $buryChildren = 1;
-}
-
-# This takes care of timeouts
-sub handleTimeout {
-    $timeoutChildren = 1;
-}
-