Re: How to check installed binaries using the same tests in the source code?

[Bruno Haible]

Hello Santiago,

> > (A) For packages that install independent programs, like coreutils
> >      or diffutils, the most frequent types of installation bugs are:
> >        - program not installed or installed in wrong location,
> >        - shared libraries that are needed by the programs are not
> >          not installed or installed in a location not listed in RPATH.
> >      The Automake-generated default 'installcheck', that — as you say —
> >      invokes all programs with --version and --help is a good and fast
> >      test against these installation bugs.
> 
> I would say that it's even most frequent that some program produces
> a different output than the expected.

Why? If the executable is simply copied from the builddir to $PREFIX/bin,
what can go wrong?

Bruno