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+/* Test of filevercmp() function.
+   Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+   the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option)
+   any later version.
+
+   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+   GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+   along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
+   Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.  */
+
+#include <config.h>
+
+#include "filevercmp.h"
+
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+
+#define ASSERT(expr) \
+  do									     \
+    {									     \
+      if (!(expr))							     \
+        {								     \
+          fprintf (stderr, "%s:%d: assertion failed\n", __FILE__, __LINE__); \
+          fflush (stderr);						     \
+          abort ();							     \
+        }								     \
+    }									     \
+  while (0)
+
+/* set of well sorted examples */
+static const char *const examples[] =
+{
+  "gcc-c++-10.fc9.tar.gz",
+  "gcc-c++-10.8.12-0.7rc2.fc9.tar.bz2",
+  "glibc-2-0.1.beta1.fc10.rpm",
+  "glibc-common-5-0.2.beta2.fc9.ebuild",
+  "glibc-common-5-0.2b.deb",
+  "glibc-common-11b.ebuild",
+  "glibc-common-11-0.6rc2.ebuild",
+  "libstdc++-0.5.8.11-0.7rc2.fc10.tar.gz",
+  "libstdc++-4a.fc8.tar.gz",
+  "libstdc++-4.10.4.20040204svn.rpm",
+  "libstdc++-devel-3.fc8.ebuild",
+  "libstdc++-devel-3a.fc9.tar.gz",
+  "libstdc++-devel-8.fc8.deb",
+  "libstdc++-devel-8.6.2-0.4b.fc8",
+  "nss_ldap-1-0.2b.fc9.tar.bz2",
+  "nss_ldap-1-0.6rc2.fc8.tar.gz",
+  "nss_ldap-1.0-0.1a.tar.gz",
+  "nss_ldap-10beta1.fc8.tar.gz",
+  "nss_ldap-10.11.8.6.20040204cvs.fc10.ebuild",
+  NULL
+};
+
+int
+main (int argc, char **argv)
+{
+  const char *const *i;
+
+  /* Following tests taken from test-strverscmp.c */
+  ASSERT (filevercmp ("", "") == 0);
+  ASSERT (filevercmp ("a", "a") == 0);
+  ASSERT (filevercmp ("a", "b") < 0);
+  ASSERT (filevercmp ("b", "a") > 0);
+  ASSERT (filevercmp ("a0", "a") > 0);
+  ASSERT (filevercmp ("00", "01") < 0);
+  ASSERT (filevercmp ("01", "010") < 0);
+  ASSERT (filevercmp ("9", "10") < 0);
+  ASSERT (filevercmp ("0a", "0") > 0);
+
+  /* compare each version string with each other - O(n^2) */
+  for (i = examples; *i; i++)
+    {
+      const char *const *j;
+      for (j = examples; *j; j++)
+	{
+	  int result = filevercmp (*i, *j);
+	  if (result < 0)
+	    ASSERT (i < j);
+	  else if (0 < result)
+	    ASSERT (j < i);
+	  else
+	    ASSERT (i == j);
+	}
+    }
+
+  return 0;
+}