[gnuastro-devel] [task #14908] Tests for after installation with "make installcheck"

[Mohammad Akhlaghi]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?14908>

                 Summary: Tests for after installation with "make
installcheck"
                 Project: GNU Astronomy Utilities
            Submitted by: makhlaghi
            Submitted on: Fri 13 Apr 2018 02:34:14 PM CEST
         Should Start On: Fri 13 Apr 2018 12:00:00 AM CEST
   Should be Finished on: Fri 13 Apr 2018 12:00:00 AM CEST
                Category: Installation
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Enhancement
                  Status: Postponed
                 Privacy: Public
        Percent Complete: 0%
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                  Effort: 0.00

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Details:

The GNU Build System also has an `installcheck' option (see Basic Installation
<https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Basic-Installation.html>).


`make check' does tests on the built files that are not yet installed
(independent of the host environment, for example previous installed
versions). However, `make installcheck' is designed for checking the installed
files. 

Almost all tests in Gnuastro can also be done on the installed programs (we
just have to remove the prefix of their executable and the copied
configuration files). 

Therefore so far, the main usefulness of `make installcheck' comes with
continuous integration services (like Debian's autopkgtest
<https://people.debian.org/~mpitt/autopkgtest/README.package-tests.html>. I
recently confronted this in Lintian's testsuite-autopkgtest-missing
<https://lintian.debian.org/tags/testsuite-autopkgtest-missing.html> warning,
while packaging Gnuastro for Debian.

It would thus be good to generalize the test script (if possible) to also work
on the installed files with `make installcheck'.




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