Re: python-cffi and ruby test suites fail in out-of-tree builds

[Floris Bruynooghe <flub@devork.be>]

Hi,

On Thu 21 May 2020 at 21:29 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:

> Hey folks--
>
> I just did a bit of testing and cleanup for out-of-tree builds (see the
> minor patches that should have landed on the list in the last hour or
> two).

It probably is indeed the unfortunate case that copying the python
source is currently the easiest.  I had a quick look and it seemed like
one'd have to dig into the cffi setuptools support to make this work and
I'm not sure how successful that would be, but I admit I didn't feel
like trying.

> For me, "make check" in an out-of-tree build works fine now, with the
> exception of T391-python-cffi.sh and T395-ruby.sh.

I checked out the python one, and maybe that's not too hard.  The
following patch made this work for both in tree and out of tree (on top
of your other patch):

modified   test/T391-python-cffi.sh
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ fi
 
 
 test_begin_subtest "python cffi tests"
-pytest_dir=$NOTMUCH_SRCDIR/bindings/python-cffi/build/stage
+pytest_dir=$NOTMUCH_BUILDDIR/bindings/python-cffi/build/stage
 printf "[pytest]\nminversion = 3.0\naddopts = -ra\n" > $pytest_dir/pytest.ini
 test_expect_success "(cd $pytest_dir && ${NOTMUCH_PYTHON} -m pytest --log-file=$TMP_DIRECTORY/test.output)"
 test_done



Hope that's helpful.

Cheers,
Floris