In order to allow out-of-tree acceptance tests with Avocado, create a symlink in the build tree.
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4...@amsat.org> --- Based-on: 20180530184156.15634-1-cr...@redhat.com http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-05/msg06877.html Before: build_dir$ avocado run /full/path/to/sources/qemu/tests/acceptance/boot_linux_console.py After build_dir$ avocado run tests/acceptance/boot_linux_console.py I first wanted to try something like: echo "[datadir.paths]" > .avocado.conf echo "test_dir = $source_path/tests/acceptance" >> .avocado.conf to run: build_dir$ avocado run -t console but this doesn't work this way, I'd have to use build_dir$ avocado --config .avocado.conf boot_linux_console.py -t console which isn't a win. --- configure | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/configure b/configure index a6a4616c3e..0763ebe5ba 100755 --- a/configure +++ b/configure @@ -7213,9 +7213,11 @@ for rom in seabios vgabios ; do done # set up tests data directory -if [ ! -e tests/data ]; then - symlink "$source_path/tests/data" tests/data -fi +for tests_subdir in acceptance data; do + if [ ! -e tests/$tests_subdir ]; then + symlink "$source_path/tests/$tests_subdir" tests/$tests_subdir + fi +done # set up qemu-iotests in this build directory iotests_common_env="tests/qemu-iotests/common.env" -- 2.17.1
