Re: Golang check phase skipping some tests?

[Tomas Volf]

On 2024-01-14 22:12:38 +0100, Troy Figiel wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> When looking into the Go build system, I noticed the default check phase
> runs (invoke "go" "test" import-path), which only runs the tests in the
> root directory of the source. Running the tests in all subdirectories
> would require something like this instead:
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> (define* (check #:key tests? import-path #:allow-other-keys)
>   "Run the tests for the package named by IMPORT-PATH."
>   (when tests?
>     (invoke "go" "test" (string-append import-path "/...")))
>   #t)
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 
> For example, if the -v flag is added (which might be a better default?)
> to the check phase of go-github-stretchr-testify, it can be seen that
> only `TestImports' runs, none of the tests in assert, http, etc.
> However, the source code in these subdirectories is still recursively
> copied to out during the install phase.
> 
> Is this desired behaviour? I assumed it isn't, because it looks like we
> are skipping a lot of tests during the check phase. However, I might
> also simply be overlooking something here as I am new to packaging
> Golang with Guix.

I tend to agree (on both accounts).  I am not aware of anything Guix specific
here that would prevent it, but maybe someone from golang team will chime in.

Have a nice day,
Tomas Volf

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