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| author | Wladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com> | 2017-09-07 00:44:02 +0200 |
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| committer | Wladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com> | 2017-09-07 00:44:20 +0200 |
| commit | bcc8a620eae9cd8fe95f0a02f17183c4a132e5a2 (patch) | |
| tree | 44ac1dcd59fb7d4be43566678aaf5bf246fbd449 | |
| parent | 6acdb1fab7703c644df2029a4ce05fb380b8a50b (diff) | |
| parent | 478d4fb79c878c560ed9179b24b48e884a3b0c13 (diff) | |
Merge #11219: [docs] explain how to recompile a modified unit test
478d4fb79 [docs] explain how to recompile only what bitcoind tests need (Sjors Provoost)
Pull request description:
It was not obvious to me to run `make` inside the test directory, especially because `make src/test` and `make src/test/test_bitcoin` result in `make: Nothing to be done for ...`.
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diff --git a/src/test/README.md b/src/test/README.md index eeb04c6ffa..dbaa9c27f3 100644 --- a/src/test/README.md +++ b/src/test/README.md @@ -5,7 +5,10 @@ and tests weren't explicitly disabled. After configuring, they can be run with `make check`. -To run the bitcoind tests manually, launch `src/test/test_bitcoin`. +To run the bitcoind tests manually, launch `src/test/test_bitcoin`. To recompile +after a test file was modified, run `make` and then run the test again. If you +modify a non-test file, use `make -C src/test` to recompile only what's needed +to run the bitcoind tests. To add more bitcoind tests, add `BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE` functions to the existing .cpp files in the `test/` directory or add new .cpp files that |