TestU01 for Debian GNU/Linux ============================ A classical search path machinery for accessing the parameters files with extension .par as read by the `Families of Generators' modules (chapter 5 in the TestU01 Guide within the testu01-doc debian package) has been patched (and submitted to the upstream maintainer team). The encoded search path list is, with `:' as list separator: /usr/local/testu01/param:/usr/testu01/param , given that /usr/testu01/param contains the parameters files shipped within the upstream source ball. Most importanlty, we can prepend this encoded list througth the environment variable TESTU01_FFAM_PARAM_PATH . Note that this implemented scheme respects the original scheme in the sense that the parameters files are first searched in the working directory, and then along the search path list; so the brought scheme is implicitly transparent for final users. Secondly, in the same spirit, the folder where the parameters files was effectively found is printed as any other typical TestU01 information. In the same vein, the TestU01 headers are shipped system wide. That is to say, they are gathered in the package include folder /usr/include/testu01 and they may be included accordingly; for illustration, please have a glance to the (patched) source examples shipped within the testu01-doc debian package and as weel as to the accompanying Makefile. Enjoy ! -- Jerome Benoit Fri, 29 Dec 2017 12:48:32 +0000