On Wednesday 2014-08-20 09:14 +0100, Neil wrote: > Gregory Szorc wrote: > > >Well, mach seems to be working for people doing m-c development. > > [Still needs a working build environment, while python runtests.py > just used to need an objdir.]
I ran into this problem not long ago when I needed to run mochitests on a different machine from the machine I was building on, because I needed to run the mochitests in a configuration that supported OMTC. (OMTC is not supported over VNC, so I couldn't run them on the machine I was building on.) I ended up repeatedly using the command: /full/path/to/build/obj/firefox-debugopt/_virtualenv/bin/python ./obj/firefox-debugopt/_tests/testing/mochitest/runtests.py --timeout 1000000 --autorun --close-when-done --console-level=INFO --testing-modules-dir=/full/path/to/build/obj/firefox-debugopt/_tests/modules --extra-profile-file=obj/firefox-debugopt/dist/plugins --test-path=layout/style/test/test_animations_omta_start.html --setpref=layers.offmainthreadcomposition.async-animations=true --setpref=layers.acceleration.force-enabled=true after rsyncing the objdir using the following rsync filter file: + /dist/ + /dist/bin/ H /dist/bin/core H /dist/bin/core.* H /dist/bin/test_* H /dist/bin/Test* H /dist/bin/*Test H /dist/bin/*_unittest H /dist/bin/*_unittests H /dist/bin/*-tests + /dist/plugins/ H /dist/* + /_tests/ H /_tests/testing/mochitest/core - /_virtualenv/ + /mozinfo.json + /config.status H /* (which took me a few hours to figure out, if I recall). Doing the equivalent with reftest is substantially easier. (I estimated that it was going to be faster to get that working than to try to figure out how to use the packaged tests, since it was possible to reverse-engineer from mochitest run inside mach, though if there had been instructions on how to use packaged tests that somebody had actually used before I'd likely have gone the other way.) This is part of why I dislike more and more layers being added to the way in which we run tests; development often requires running things in different-from-normal ways, and the more layers we have, the harder that gets. -David -- 𝄞 L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 𝄂 𝄢 Mozilla https://www.mozilla.org/ 𝄂 Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offense. - Robert Frost, Mending Wall (1914)
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