Re: TAP tests, directories and parameters

Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> It's currently not possible to just run all tap tests in one prove run,
> because a number of tests assume that they are run from specific directories
> and/or with per-directory parameters.
> For meson I "solved" this by running each individual test in a wrapper that
> changes directory etc. But that's not really a great approach.
> To me it seems we should change our tests and test invocations to not depend
> on being run from a specific directory and to unify the environment variables
> passed to tap tests to one set somewhere central.

I'd be sad if this implied that running "make [install]check" in a
particular subdirectory no longer runs just that directory's tests.
Otherwise, sounds fine.

regards, tom lane