Using same stdout/stderr files for multiple tests?

[Phyx]

Hi Omer,

If you frequently require this it would be a trivial thing to add, it's a
small modification to find_expected_file,
I can probably find some time next week to do this for you if you want.

>
> I don't believe there is a way to do this. I would likely make
> test_debug.stdout a symlink to test.stdout.

Please don't, the symlinks won't persist on Windows where we'll end up with
file copies instead, which goes horribly wrong once you modify one of them.

Regards,
Tamar

On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 4:44 AM Ömer Sinan Ağacan <omeragacan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> These days when I need something like this I just use a make rule, which
> is not
> great as you have to run multiple tests in one make rule and you can't run
> only
> one with the TESTS parameter or skip some of the tests.
>
> Another problem is I can't have multiple tests that use single source file,
> again I have to use a make rule.
>
> Ömer
>
> Ben Gamari <ben at smart-cactus.org>, 23 Oca 2019 Çar, 02:44 tarihinde şunu
> yazdı:
> >
> > Ömer Sinan Ağacan <omeragacan at gmail.com> writes:
> >
> > > I have a test that I want to run with different compile and runtime
> parameters.
> > > I managed to reuse the source file across different tests by adding a
> > > extra_files(['source.hs']) to the tests, but I don't know how to do
> the same for
> > > stdout/stderr files. Any ideas?
> > >
> > > In more details, I have
> > >
> > >     test.hs
> > >     test.stdout
> > >
> > > and two tests
> > >
> > >     test('test',
> > >          [extra_run_opts('...')],
> > >          compile_and_run,
> > >          [])
> > >
> > >     test('test_debug',
> > >          [extra_run_opts('...'),
> > >           extra_hc_opts('-debug'),
> > >           extra_files(['test.hs'])],
> > >          compile_and_run,
> > >          [])
> > >
> > > The first test works fine, but the second test fails because I don't
> know how to
> > > tell it to use test.stdout as the stdout file and it looks for
> > > test_debug.stdout.
> > >
> > This is probably no longer relevant but:
> >
> > I don't believe there is a way to do this. I would likely make
> > test_debug.stdout a symlink to test.stdout.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > - Ben
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