Bill Allombert on Tue, 20 Jul 2010 16:17:34 +0200


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Re: some glitches in make test-all


On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 10:01:18PM +0100, John Cremona wrote:
> Thanks, Bill.
> 
> On 16 July 2010 21:00, Bill Allombert
> <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr> wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 08:33:48PM +0100, John Cremona wrote:
> >> Thanks for the detailed reply.
> >>
> >> (1) You are right that I had the defaults set for the install
> >> directory, but had not yet done "make install".  I definitely agree
> >> that it should be possible to let users do "make test-all" *before*
> >> "make install".  That should be possible to manage by some use of
> >> environment variables and the like, but I am not volunteering.
> >
> > env GP_DATA_DIR=data make test-all
> > should do the trick.
> 
> For me I had to do
> 
> env GP_DATA_DIR=$PWD/data make test-all
> 
> (i.e. the Environment variable had to be set to an absolute path) and
> then it did work.

Ah yes, I meant 
env GP_DATA_DIR=../data make test-all

Cheers,
Bill.