Hi automake developers,
I'm one of the maintainers of an open source image processing toolkit
(OpenCV) and responsible for parts of the autotools setup. The
package mainly consists of four shared libraries but is accompanied
by a python package containing some pure python code and of course
extension modules for the four libraries.
Now during the last month we were preparing a major release which
means testing, fixing, testing, fixing, ... in the first degree.
Typical functionality of the shared libraries is verified during
'make check' and 'make distcheck' by binaries that are linked against
the libraries (straight forward) and are listed in the 'TESTS'
automake primary.
Unfortunately, many problems with the python wrappers were overseen
from time to time. Currently we have to build and install before we
can run any python-based test routines. When trying to integrate
python module testing into the automake setup, there are some
problems that I couldn't find a solution for:
a) the extension modules are built in different (other)
subdirectories - so they are not in the local path where python could
find them
b) the libraries and extension modules are built with libtool and may
have rpaths compiled in (is this problematic)?
c) a different version of our wrappers might be installed on the
testing machine, somewhere in python/site-packages. How can I make
sure that python only finds my 'new' local generated modules?
I know that I could use the install-check target to just start my
python tests post installation of the libraries and the python
module. The question is, will install-check be invoked during 'make
distcheck' automatically? I couldn't find any information on how to
do that ... Also I would have to tell python and the operating system
where to find python modules and shared libraries (again) ... My goal
is to have everything checked during distcheck to really make sure I
don't hand out broken tarballs.
Did someone solve a similar problem?
Thanks in advance,
Mark
P.S.: I'll post a similar message to the python mailing list, but
last time I asked an autotools/python related questions, there were
not many answers ...
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Institute of Communications Engineering Fax +49 (0)241 80-22196
RWTH Aachen University, Germany http://www.ient.rwth-aachen.de
