Re: Running tests for a single program in src/bin, src/usr.bin, etc

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 <henrichhartzer@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 asomers@freebsd.org:
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> > On Mon, Mar 4, 2024 at 5:55 PM <henrichhartzer@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
> >