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| author | Chandan Singh <chandan@chandansingh.net> | 2020-08-04 21:10:26 +0000 |
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| committer | bst-marge-bot <marge-bot@buildstream.build> | 2020-08-10 07:19:18 +0000 |
| commit | 7dffdec0163983e0534e2e4d5f1bf97c543c3346 (patch) | |
| tree | a0585794e606f03329b868e15bc0dd79283810b3 | |
| parent | 4f5e799091fef702134dcfdc45a8e8aa80bb14bf (diff) | |
| download | buildstream-7dffdec0163983e0534e2e4d5f1bf97c543c3346.tar.gz | |
doc/using_the_testsuite: Link to instructions for runtime dependencies
Running the test suite requires one to install BuildStream's runtime
dependencies as well, out of which BuildBox is the tricky one. We
already have instructions on how to do that, so we just need to point to
it from the hacking docs.
Closes #1115.
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/source/hacking/using_the_testsuite.rst | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/source/hacking/using_the_testsuite.rst b/doc/source/hacking/using_the_testsuite.rst index 720c910c4..487e3caf4 100644 --- a/doc/source/hacking/using_the_testsuite.rst +++ b/doc/source/hacking/using_the_testsuite.rst @@ -33,6 +33,16 @@ For Debian-based systems:: apt install gcc python3-dev +Installing runtime dependencies +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +To be able to run BuildStream as part of the test suite, BuildStream's runtime +dependencies must also be installed. Instructions on how to do so can be found +in :ref:`install-dependencies`. + +If you are not interested in running the integration tests, you can skip the +installation of ``buildbox-run``. + + Running tests ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To run the tests, simply navigate to the toplevel directory of your BuildStream |