[GTK] Make layout tests / jsc tests usable without build-webkit

• Component: Tools / Tests
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Alp Toker]

The build-webkit script is rarely used by GTK+ port developers as the port uses autotools.

The DRT and JavaScriptCore test drivers currently expect the built products (binaries) to be where build-webkit puts them, which is fine and useful for the build bot harness. This is not a good default for most developers though.

I've had some success with this command line:

~/Projects/webkit/ng/build$ ../webkit/WebKitTools/Scripts/run-webkit-tests --root=. --gtk --strict

I don't remember the command to run the JS tests off hand, but it was similar. This is probably very non-obvious to casual WebKit GTK+ contributors (and distribution packagers, for whom we need to make it really easy to run the tests before they ship their binaries).

I think the output directory of results was also not ideal (maybe it was littering srcdir?).

We need to modify the scripts to make this more obvious and/or document the correct invocation of the commands for this use case.

[Alp Toker]

I can't actually get run-webkit-tests to work at all right now. The gtk/DumpRenderTree binary works fine when invoked directly, but the run-webkit-tests perl script seems not to be working. One guess is that it's scrubbing important environment variables that need to be defined.

[Alp Toker]

(In reply to comment #1)
> I can't actually get run-webkit-tests to work at all right now. The
> gtk/DumpRenderTree binary works fine when invoked directly, but the
> run-webkit-tests perl script seems not to be working. One guess is that it's
> scrubbing important environment variables that need to be defined.
> 

It works with webkitdirs.pm and run-webkit-tests from r35816, so appears to be a regression that showed up in the perl scripts since 2008-08-18.

[Jan Alonzo]

Created attachment 28810 [details]
set the product dir to the value of WEBKITOUTPUTDIR 

This requires WEBKITOUTPUTDIR pointed to the location of the build directory - doesn't work with relative paths currently.

e.g.

WEBKITOUTPUTDIR=~/WebKit/build ./WebKitTools/Scripts/run-webkit-tests --gtk .....

[Gustavo Noronha (kov)]

Comment on attachment 28810 [details]
set the product dir to the value of WEBKITOUTPUTDIR 

Like I said on IRC, as long as this keeps working with build-webkit builds, r=me, with a less confusing comment ;D.

[Jan Alonzo]

Landed in r42891