[issue45695] Out-of-tree builds are not tested.

Christian Heimes added the comment: New changeset cee07b162843694e8166ad8715162d4d5886b50f by Christian Heimes in branch 'main': bpo-45695: Test out-of-tree builds on GHA (GH-29904) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/cee07b162843694e8166ad8715162d4d5886b50f --

[issue45695] Out-of-tree builds are not tested.

Erlend E. Aasland added the comment: FWIW, it is also impossible to build the docs OOT without cluttering the source tree. $ cd ../build $ make -C ../cpython.git/Doc venv $ make -C ../cpython.git/Doc html # <= modifies Doc/build in the source tree -- nosy:

[issue45695] Out-of-tree builds are not tested.

Gregory P. Smith added the comment: Nice trick with that RO bind mount. tests... yes we do have some writable source tree messes in there to be dealt with. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue45695] Out-of-tree builds are not tested.

Christian Heimes added the comment: Good news: I got a test case for OOT build with read-only sources Bad news: 15 test cases are failing and testing takes much longer because pyc files are missing. 15 re-run tests: test__xxsubinterpreters test_ast test_bdb test_capi test_doctest

[issue45695] Out-of-tree builds are not tested.

Change by Christian Heimes : -- keywords: +patch pull_requests: +28128 stage: test needed -> patch review pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/29904 ___ Python tracker

[issue45695] Out-of-tree builds are not tested.

Change by Gregory P. Smith : -- assignee: -> gregory.p.smith ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe:

[issue45695] Out-of-tree builds are not tested.

Gregory P. Smith added the comment: I always do out of tree builds _(I find people who build anything in tree to be very weird - it makes a mess)_. I intend to look into making sure a Linux buildbot runs this way but don't let that stop anyone else from doing so. --

[issue45695] Out-of-tree builds are not tested.

Steve Dower added the comment: FTR, I used to run all Windows builds out of tree on Azure Pipelines, but too many tests broke so I reverted it: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/456e27ac0ac6bc1cfd6da0191bd7802d8667457b/.azure-pipelines/windows-steps.yml#L7-L10 Setting $env:Py_OutDir

[issue45695] Out-of-tree builds are not tested.

New submission from Eric Snow : Currently we don't test builds done outside the source tree, neither on GitHub nor the buildbots. [1] As a result, such builds get broken occasionally. I've certainly broken then a couple times, inadvertently. It would be helpful if we tested out-of-tree