On Thu, 28 Nov 2024 12:43:05 +0100 Santiago Vila <sanv...@debian.org> wrote:
> Dear mentors: > > Many GNU packages have built-in tests that test the just-built > programs. > > Is there a general procedure/trick/idiom to modify them so that > they test the installed version instead? (so that they can be > reused with minimal changes). What often works well with simple utils is creating a symlink pointing to the packaged binary, in whatever location the testsuite expects the freshly build one (typically the build root).
