Re: autopkgtest with additional data files?

Op 26-10-2024 om 21:15 schreef Nilesh Patra:
>> For one of my projects (density-fitness) I'd like to have a better
>> autopkgtest that does not require a full installation of libcifpp along
>> with the 750MB of data in components.cif (CCD). So I rewrote the script
>> to run the executable in order to use a small subset of that CCD file.
>> But the autopkgtest cannot find the file which means the script is not
>> run from within the directory where the test files are located.
>>
>> What is the best approach to fix this? Use the path of the script
>> querying $0? Use some undocumented variable to find the location of the
>> scripts? Include the data into the script and write that out first
>> before running the actual test?
> You would need to copy the files to AUTOPKGTEST_TMP dir for them to be
> found. The idea is to do the tests in a tmpdir.
> I have fixed a patch to salsa, LMK if that makes sense.
Thanks,  so the script starts in the extracted debian source directory. 
Should have thought of that.
> BTW the cross-builds are failing due to running mrc from build
> architecure. Is this really needed/good to have?
> (adding -DUSE_RSRC=OFF makes cross builds pass)
>
> If it does add value, it is fine to have it as is and let cross-builds
Well, I think using mrc adds value. It makes executables more portable 
since some of the most often needed resource files are then included in 
the binary. But maybe I should drop this feature for packaging in 
Debian. No one is going to copy a binary installed in Debian from one 
computer to another. I guess.

-maarten