Hello Thomas, Is there a way to change where the temporary directory is made? The test suite can take a lot of disk space and some of us would prefer to store the test output on a different partition. Thanks, Edward Excerpts from Thomas Miedema's message of 2016-05-17 09:11:53 -0700:
Hello GHC developers,
the testsuite driver now runs each test in a temporary directory in /tmp, after first linking/copying all files that the test requires to that directory.
When adding a new test:
** if your test requires source files that don't start with the name of your test, then you *have to* specify those files using the `extra_files` setup function. [1]*
* you no longer have to specify files to cleanup (`clean_files` and `clean_cmd` are deprecated)
* you no longer have to add generated files to `testsuite/.gitignore`
* you no longer have to worry about two tests possibly overwriting each others intermediate (.o, .hi) files, and you no longer have to specify `-outputdir` if you want to let multiple tests use the same source files.
Example:
*BEFORE:* test('driver011', extra_clean(['A011.hi', 'A011.o']), run_command, ['$MAKE -s --no-print-directory test011'])
*AFTER:* test('driver011', extra_files(['A011.hs']), run_command, ['$MAKE -s --no-print-directory test011'])
See https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/11980 and https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/RunningTests/Adding for more information.
Cheers, Thomas
[1] Extra files for existing tests are currently listed in `testsuite/driver/extra_files.py`.