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John Ericson f7f37035c8 Move tests to separate directories, and document
Today, with the tests inside a `tests` intermingled with the
corresponding library's source code, we have a few problems:

- We have to be careful that wildcards don't end up with tests being
  built as part of Nix proper, or test headers being installed as part
  of Nix proper.

- Tests in libraries but not executables is not right:

  - It means each executable runs the previous unit tests again, because
    it needs the libraries.

  - It doesn't work right on Windows, which doesn't want you to load a
    DLL just for the side global variable . It could be made to work
    with the dlopen equivalent, but that's gross!

This reorg solves these problems.

There is a remaining problem which is that sibbling headers (like
`hash.hh` the test header vs `hash.hh` the main `libnixutil` header) end
up shadowing each other. This PR doesn't solve that. That is left as
future work for a future PR.

Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>

(cherry picked from commit 91b6833686a6a6d9eac7f3f66393ec89ef1d3b57)
(cherry picked from commit a61e42adb528b3d40ce43e07c79368d779a8b624)
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.github Put functional tests in tests/functional 2023-12-01 12:06:43 -05:00
config Run autoupdate 2021-06-01 11:42:38 +02:00
contrib function-trace: always show the trace 2019-09-18 23:23:21 +02:00
doc Move tests to separate directories, and document 2023-12-01 13:05:03 -05:00
m4 autoconf: Fix C++17 detection not working on Ubuntu 16.04. 2019-07-03 04:32:25 +02:00
maintainers maintainers: add note on marking PRs as draft 2023-06-19 10:55:34 +02:00
misc Choose a reasonable number similar to LimitNOFile 2023-07-07 07:52:16 -07:00
mk Put functional tests in tests/functional 2023-12-01 12:06:43 -05:00
perl Allow dynamic derivation deps in inputDrvs 2023-09-07 10:39:37 -04:00
scripts Merge pull request #8512 from scarf005/install-show-uid 2023-06-15 13:49:44 +02:00
src Move tests to separate directories, and document 2023-12-01 13:05:03 -05:00
tests Move tests to separate directories, and document 2023-12-01 13:05:03 -05:00
.dir-locals.el .dir-locals.el: Set c-block-comment-prefix 2020-07-10 11:21:06 +02:00
.editorconfig Add .editorconfig 2017-06-05 22:57:28 +01:00
.gitignore Move tests to separate directories, and document 2023-12-01 13:05:03 -05:00
.version Bump version 2023-09-20 15:20:52 +02:00
boehmgc-coroutine-sp-fallback.diff Always disable GC in a coroutine unless the patch is applied 2023-04-07 14:54:38 +02:00
bootstrap.sh bootstrap: Simplify & make more robust. 2011-09-06 12:11:05 +00:00
configure.ac expand on the system type in hacking guide 2023-07-19 10:37:40 +02:00
CONTRIBUTING.md Put functional tests in tests/functional 2023-12-01 12:06:43 -05:00
COPYING * Change this to LGPL to keep the government happy. 2006-04-25 16:41:06 +00:00
default.nix add flake-compat to flake.nix and use sha256 in default.nix 2023-03-06 21:11:24 +01:00
docker.nix fix "add an option to include flake-registry..." 2023-05-16 14:35:31 +02:00
flake.lock flake.lock: Update 2023-12-01 11:08:15 -05:00
flake.nix Move tests to separate directories, and document 2023-12-01 13:05:03 -05:00
local.mk Enable -Werror=switch-enum 2023-04-03 18:45:20 +02:00
Makefile Move tests to separate directories, and document 2023-12-01 13:05:03 -05:00
Makefile.config.in Generate API docs with Doxygen 2023-03-10 12:51:06 -05:00
precompiled-headers.h Config: Use nlohmann/json 2020-08-20 11:02:16 +02:00
README.md Improve hacking.md 2023-02-13 12:00:00 +04:00
shell.nix Remove url literals 2022-01-24 13:28:21 +01:00

Nix

Open Collective supporters Test

Nix is a powerful package manager for Linux and other Unix systems that makes package management reliable and reproducible. Please refer to the Nix manual for more details.

Installation

On Linux and macOS the easiest way to install Nix is to run the following shell command (as a user other than root):

$ curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install | sh

Information on additional installation methods is available on the Nix download page.

Building And Developing

See our Hacking guide in our manual for instruction on how to to set up a development environment and build Nix from source.

Additional Resources

License

Nix is released under the LGPL v2.1.