Re: How to deal with test data in ouf of source tree builds?

[Peter Johansson]

Hi Paul,


On 6/15/2017 10:06 PM, Paul Menzel wrote:
> Dear Autoconf folks,
>
>
> When doing an out of source build of Unbound, the test suite fails 
> with the error below.
>
> ```
> test signature verify functions
> testpkts error: could not open file testdata/test_signatures.1: No 
> such file or directory
> Makefile:304: recipe for target 'test' failed
> make: *** [test] Error 1
> ```
>
> In the source directory there is a directory `testdata`, and that gets 
> referenced incorrectly in `testcode/unitverify.c`.

One solution I've used is to export ${abs_top_srcdir} to config.h and 
then use that value as prefix in filenames.

Another solution is to create a link to directory testdata when $srcdir 
!= $builddir. There is a macro AC_CONFIG_LNKS that might be useful.

Cheers,
Peter