From: eregontp@...
Date: 2019-04-30T12:43:27+00:00
Subject: [ruby-core:92493] [Ruby trunk Bug#15812] Run specs from install	folder?

Issue #15812 has been updated by Eregon (Benoit Daloze).


I wholeheartedly agree with that.
Supporting running specs from the non-installed Ruby is significant work and hacks.
And testing what people use in production rather than a temporary build is of course much more meaningful.

But I don't think many people agree to require running `install` to run specs/tests, unfortunately, see #13620.
Maybe we should do so that `make` creates an install-like layout in the first place with the build paths to e.g. libruby,
so that we can run tests there without e.g., needing miniruby and tool/run-ruby.rb?

We could require running tests from the install directory only for Windows if people agree.

> spec tests normally run directly in their repo (ruby/spec)

They don't need to, it's perfectly fine to run specs from the copy under spec/ruby in the ruby repository.

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Bug #15812: Run specs from install folder?
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/15812#change-77844

* Author: MSP-Greg (Greg L)
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: 
* Target version: 
* ruby -v: 
* Backport: 2.4: UNKNOWN, 2.5: UNKNOWN, 2.6: UNKNOWN
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1. Currently, no testing is done on the install folder.
2. Configure/build & testing both take far longer than install
3. spec tests normally run directly in their repo (ruby/spec)

GitHub PR 2160 https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/2160 runs the spec suite from the install folder for the three windows builds.  All passed, and the tests were run parallel.


Given that the purpose is to create a functioning install folder, maybe a first step would be runnig specs from there?





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