snapcraft can't run tests as part of building a snap

[Chad Miller]

It's quite a common pattern in the autoconf world to have the resulting makefile have rules that verify the build against a test suite. There is no way to run those tests right now.

I think it would be nice to have in autoconf and maybe others a way to run tests after build, the failure of which halts packaging.

ideas

  plugin: autoconf
  accept-if:
    - make run-unittests
    - make run-coveragetests

or

  plugin: autoconf
  test-rules: [ run-unittests, run-coveragetests ]

[Sergio Schvezov (sergiusens)]

El 22/09/16 a las 12:49, Chad Miller escribió:
> Public bug reported:
>
> It's quite a common pattern in the autoconf world to have the resulting
> makefile have rules that verify the build against a test suite. There is
> no way to run those tests right now.
>
> I think it would be nice to have in autoconf and maybe others a way to
> run tests after build, the failure of which halts packaging.
>
> ideas
>
> plugin: autoconf
> accept-if:
> - make run-unittests
> - make run-coveragetests
>
>
> or
>
> plugin: autoconf
> test-rules: [ run-unittests, run-coveragetests ]
>

Thanks for bringing this back into our radar, we do want to have some
semantics to also have an explicit `snapcraft test` command (discussed
it with Mark a while back).

I am leaning onto `test-targets` and using the latter approach.