qa tests, avoid repeated exection of ngspice for version detection

tests/bin/runQaTests.pl

@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ $listVariants=0;
 $onlyDoSimulatorVersion=0;
 $onlyDoPlatformVersion=0;
 $onlyDoComparison=0;
+$onlyTuple=0;
 $forceSimulation=1;
 $printWarnings=1;
 @prog=split("/",$0);
@@ -185,6 +186,14 @@ for (;;) {
         $verbose=1;
     } elsif ($ARGV[0] =~ /^-V/) {
         $verbose=1;$reallyVerbose=1;
+    } elsif ($ARGV[0] =~ /^--tuple/) {
+        $onlyTuple=1;
+    } elsif ($ARGV[0]  =~ /^--version=(.*)/i) {
+        $version=$1;
+    } elsif ($ARGV[0]  =~ /^--platform=(.*)/i) {
+        $platform=$1;
+    } elsif ($ARGV[0]  =~ /^--vaVersion=(.*)/i) {
+        $vaVersion=$1;
     } elsif ($ARGV[0] =~ /^-/) {
         &usage();
         die("ERROR: unknown flag $ARGV[0], stopped");
@@ -196,10 +205,10 @@ for (;;) {
 if ($onlyDoSimulatorVersion && !defined($simulatorName) && defined($ARGV[0])) {
     $simulatorName=$ARGV[0]; # assume -sv simulatorName was specified
 }
-if ($#ARGV<0 && !$onlyDoPlatformVersion && !($onlyDoSimulatorVersion && defined($simulatorName))) {
+if ($#ARGV<0 && !$onlyDoPlatformVersion && !($onlyDoSimulatorVersion && defined($simulatorName)) && !$onlyTuple) {
     &usage();exit(0);
 }
-if (!$onlyDoPlatformVersion && !defined($simulatorName)) {
+if (!$onlyDoPlatformVersion && !defined($simulatorName) && !$onlyTuple) {
     &usage();exit(0);
 }
 if(!defined($simulatorCommand)) {
@@ -213,6 +222,22 @@ if(!defined($simulatorCommand)) {
 if (! require "$programDirectory/modelQaTestRoutines.pm") {
     die("ERROR: problem sourcing modelQaTestRoutines.pm, stopped");
 }
+
+if ($onlyTuple) {
+    $platform = &modelQa::platform();
+    if (! -r "$programDirectory/$simulatorName.pm") {
+        die("ERROR: there is no test routine Perl module for simulator $simulatorName, stopped");
+    }
+    if (! require "$programDirectory/$simulatorName.pm") {
+        die("ERROR: problem sourcing test routine Perl module for simulator $simulatorName, stopped");
+    }
+    ($version,$vaVersion) = &simulate::version();
+    print "platform=$platform\n";
+    print "version=$version\n";
+    print "vaVersion=$vaVersion\n";
+    exit(0);
+}
+
 if (!$onlyDoComparison) {
     $platform=&modelQa::platform();
     if ($onlyDoPlatformVersion) {
@@ -231,7 +256,9 @@ if (!$onlyDoComparison) {
 #
 
 if (!$onlyDoComparison) {
-    ($version,$vaVersion)=&simulate::version();
+    if (!defined($version) || !defined($vaVersion)) {
+        ($version,$vaVersion)=&simulate::version();
+    }
     if ($onlyDoSimulatorVersion) {
         if ($vaVersion eq "unknown") {
             print $version;exit(0);

tests/bin/run_cmc_check

@@ -44,8 +44,13 @@ run_test() {
 
     simname="$1"
 
-    localPlatform=`${testProgramName} -platform`
-    localVersion=`${testProgramName} ${testProgramFlags} -sv -s ${simname} ${qaSpecFile}`
+    for i in $(${testProgramName} ${testProgramFlags} -s ${simname} --tuple) ; do
+        case "${i%%=*}" in
+            platform)  localPlatform="${i#*=}";;
+            version)   localVersion="${i#*=}";;
+            vaVersion) localVaVersion="${i#*=}";;
+        esac
+    done
 
     echo ""
     echo "******"
@@ -64,6 +69,9 @@ run_test() {
                 -s ${simname} \
                 -r -t ${test} \
                 -var ${variant} \
+                --version=${localVersion} \
+                --vaVersion=${localVaVersion} \
+                --platform=${platform} \
                 --results=${qaResultsDirectory} \
                 ${qaSpecFile}
         done
@@ -94,6 +102,9 @@ run_test() {
                         -s ${simname} \
                         -t ${test} \
                         -var ${variant} \
+                        --version=${localVersion} \
+                        --vaVersion=${localVaVersion} \
+                        --platform=${platform} \
                         --results=${qaResultsDirectory} \
                         ${qaSpecFile}
                 done