Re: Adding autopkgtests to GNU packages

[Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>]

Hi!

On Thu, 2024-11-28 at 09:30:15 -0300, Santiago Ruano Rincón wrote:
> This is what grep does [0]:
> 
>     #!/bin/sh
>     set -e
> 
>     export DEB_BUILD_PROFILES="nocheck nodoc" DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS="nocheck nodoc"
> 
>     dpkg-source --before-build `pwd`

Nit: I'd probably use «$(pwd)» here, or perhaps simply «.». :)

>     dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot --target=clean
>     dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot --target=build

You should not need to pass -rfakeroot, which has been the default,
if available, since dpkg 1.14.7 (from 2007-10).

>     make -C tests check-am

Is this really testing the installed executables? The convention is
for the «check» target to use the built binaries for the tests. If you
had only configured the package (instead of a full build), and the test
suite would not hardcode program pathnames, then I assume that might
implicitly test the installed binaries, but the above looks like might
not be doing what is expected?

Thanks,
Guillem