initial commit of hand merging, plus getting "ancient" waf script to work correctly

libs/canvas/test/testrunner.cpp

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+#include <cppunit/CompilerOutputter.h>
+#include <cppunit/extensions/TestFactoryRegistry.h>
+#include <cppunit/TestResult.h>
+#include <cppunit/TestResultCollector.h>
+#include <cppunit/TestRunner.h>
+#include <cppunit/BriefTestProgressListener.h>
+
+int
+main()
+{
+    CppUnit::TestResult testresult;
+
+    CppUnit::TestResultCollector collectedresults;
+    testresult.addListener (&collectedresults);
+
+    CppUnit::BriefTestProgressListener progress;
+    testresult.addListener (&progress);
+
+    CppUnit::TestRunner testrunner;
+    testrunner.addTest (CppUnit::TestFactoryRegistry::getRegistry ().makeTest ());
+    testrunner.run (testresult);
+
+    CppUnit::CompilerOutputter compileroutputter (&collectedresults, std::cerr);
+    compileroutputter.write ();
+
+    return collectedresults.wasSuccessful () ? 0 : 1;
+}