Re: How to run tests without installing?

> On Apr 29, 2024, at 1:47 PM, Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Apr 29, 2024 at 12:34:51PM +0200, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
>> How can I run the regression tests on my work-in-progress without
>> installing it first?
>> 
>> Say I'm changing something in sh.  Can I run the tests on the
>> compiled sh in /usr/obj, without having to install my potentially
>> broken work into the system?  Running "make tests" in src/bin/sh
>> doesn't seem to actually test anything.
> 
> Generally speaking you can't.  This is one of the problematic things
> about the current test framework.  The best you can do for something
> like sh where you really don't want to install a broken one is probably
> installing in a jail and running tests there.

Try “make check MK_MAKE_CHECK_USE_SANDBOX=yes -DNO_ROOT”. It’s not perfect, but it might do what you want without breaking your system.
Cheers,
-Enji