On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 10:07:06PM +0200, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Mathieu Arnold: > > > > Is a port allowed to depend on the installed version of itself for > > > running "make test"? > > > > Nope. Tests are run after the port is installed, so, it should already > > That is not true. "test" depends on "stage". It does not install > the port.
Oh, you are right, I don't know why my brain made the shortcut staged == installed. > > be ok. What problem are you trying to solve. > > I'm working on a port that can't run its regression tests out of > the build or stage areas. The command to be tested will call > submodules with compiled in absolute paths (/usr/local/libexec/...). > So this port bla/foo would require to be already installed for > testing: > > TEST_DEPENDS= foo:bla/foo > > The foo command will call /usr/local/libexec/foo/foo-helper. If > the latter isn't there, foo won't run. Well, you cannot have recursive dependencies, so a port cannot depend on itself. What about if you chroot in STAGEDIR to run the tests? -- Mathieu Arnold
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