How should I test my patches?

[Andrew Haley]

Mohan Embar writes:
 > Hi People,
 > 
 > I am currently throwing around the Win32 3.4 networking
 > code as well as doing general refactoring and cleanup.
 > Any thoughts as to the best way to test my changes? Up
 > until now with my patches, I've written handcoded, 
 > patch-specific tests. I know little about what
 > Jacks and Mauve are or whether or not it's possible to
 > leverage these.
 > 
 > How should I best test my stuff? My handcoded tests?
 > The real testsuites? Both? Thanks for educating me.

Have you not been able to run "make check"?

Andrew.