You aren't the first person to request that. And such a feature would work well for most programs. But there are many exceptions. For example, some programs' tests need to read a file stored in a different program's test directory. For such reasons you're required to install the tests before running them. -Alan
On Wed, Mar 13, 2024 at 4:40 PM <henrichhart...@tuta.io> wrote: > > Hi Alan, > > That worked. Thank you! > > I do still think it would be nice to be able to run tests in isolation, like > `make test`. It seems like ideally you could test the individual binary > without installing it to the system, in case there are issues. > > -Henrich > > Mar 5, 2024, 14:06 by asom...@freebsd.org: > > > On Mon, Mar 4, 2024 at 5:55 PM <henrichhart...@tuta.io> wrote: > > > >> > >> Hi everyone, > >> > >> Not sure if this is the best list for this. Maybe hackers@ would be better? > >> > >> I wanted to tinker with utilities in /usr/src/bin and /usrsrc/usr.bin. I > >> noticed that rmdir exits 1 for usage, which is a pet peeve of mine. I > >> updated it to exit 2 and then wanted to alter the tests to ensure it's > >> exiting 2. > >> > >> At this point, I'm unsure of how to run tests for this single component. > >> Is there a way I can be in /usr/src/bin/rmdir and just run a succesful > >> `make test` (or equivalent) without some combination of `make install` + > >> kyua out of /usr/tests? Seems like for self-contained tests, simple > >> testing should be possible. > >> > >> I did find `make check`, but I'm having issues with checkdir sticking > >> around. > >> > >> Thank you! > >> > >> -Henrich > >> > > > > If you don't like the fact that checkdir disappears, then you'll have > > to do "make install". But you don't need to run Kyua on the entire > > test suite. You can do it just on a subdir, like this: > > > > sudo kyua test --kyuafile /usr/tests/bin/rmdir/Kyuafile > >
