John Cremona on Fri, 16 Jul 2010 23:01:53 +0200


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Re: some glitches in make test-all


Thanks, Bill.

On 16 July 2010 21:00, Bill Allombert
<Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 08:33:48PM +0100, John Cremona wrote:
>> Thanks for the detailed reply.
>>
>> (1) You are right that I had the defaults set for the install
>> directory, but had not yet done "make install".  I definitely agree
>> that it should be possible to let users do "make test-all" *before*
>> "make install".  That should be possible to manage by some use of
>> environment variables and the like, but I am not volunteering.
>
> env GP_DATA_DIR=data make test-all
> should do the trick.

For me I had to do

env GP_DATA_DIR=$PWD/data make test-all

(i.e. the Environment variable had to be set to an absolute path) and
then it did work.

John
>
> Cheers,
> Bill.
>