Hi folks you are definitely right with your answers, however, they are not entirely answer my questions
On 07/15/15 10:29, Ghislain Vaillant wrote:
> On 15 Jul 2015 9:03 am, "PICCA Frederic-Emmanuel" <
> frederic-emmanuel.pi...@synchrotron-soleil.fr> wrote:
>>
>>>> In order to run the tests in my package I first have to build them
> (they
>>>> are not built by the 'all' target). This requires a non-standard target
>>>> (build-tests) of the upstream Makefile to be invoked.
>>>> I have two solutions how I can deal with this:
>>>> 1.) I change to the build directory (the directory where the rules
>>>> file invokes the upstream build system) and run 'make build-tests'
>>>> from within rules.
>>>> 2.) Find a simple way how to call a custom target of the upstream
>>>> build system from within 'rules'.
>>
>>
>> In fact I just checked in the debhelper.
>> the dh_auto_test target call the first running test , check target
>>
>> so if you add a make chech target, it will be executer by dh
>>
>>
>> Now if you want to customize the target
>>
>> just
>>
>> override_du_auto_test:
>> <cmd du run the tests>
Let me give you an example here. Let us assume we have a special target
'my_super_test' in the upstream Makefile which should be called by
dh_auto_test and let us further assume we do not want or cannot change
the upstream Makefile.
In this case I would do something like this
override_du_auto_test:
cd <BUILDDIR> && make my_super_test
My original question was: where do I get BUILDDIR from? For instance,
when you use cmake the build directory (relative to the location where
the rules file is running) is obj-x86_64-linux-gnu. I learned this from
the output of the build process. However, this obviously depends on the
architecture. What I would like to have is a procedure which retrieves
me this information.
I stumbled upon this problem for dh_auto_test but there are maybe other
situations where this is useful.
regards
Eugen
>>
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Fred
>>
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>
> I second what Fred said.
>
> The override on dh_auto_test exists for specific use cases where upstream
> deviates from what dh can automatically detect wrt the test suite.
>
> Ghis
>
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