[QGIS-Developer] Running unit tests without "make install"

[Thomas Larsen Wessel]

Thanks both of you :) And happy new year.

On Sun, Dec 31, 2023 at 11:38 PM Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com>
wrote:

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>
> On Mon, 1 Jan 2024, 6:36 am Thomas Larsen Wessel via QGIS-Developer, <
> qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
>
>> The docs (
>> https://docs.qgis.org/3.28/en/docs/developers_guide/unittesting.html#run-your-tests)
>> specify: *make && make install && make test*.
>>
>> I would rather not run make install, since I have another instance of
>> QGIS installed via APT, and I worry running make install will somehow make
>> a mess and leave me without a working instance.
>>
>> But is it really necessary to run make install before make run? In fact
>> it seems more natural to me to test before installing!
>>
>
> Try running "ctest" from your build directory. There's no need to install
> if doing it this way. (It's how I do all of my development)
>
> Nyall
>
>>
>> Sincerely
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