autopkgtest - automated package testing

[Ian Jackson]

Scott James Remnant writes ("Re: autopkgtest - automated package testing"):
> They both follow GNU standard conventions and the test suite is run with
> "make check" from a built source tree.
> 
> How would these be integrated into autopkgtest?

This is a good question which unfortunately doesn't have a
straightforward answer.

`make check' runs the just-built software in the build tree.  You need
to override it somehow to make it run the installed version of the
program.

AFAIAA there is not generally a standard way used by `make check' to
make the program use executables, libraries, helper scripts, etc.,
from the build tree - so there is no standard way to override that
either.

Which two packages ?  I'd be happy to take a quick look and suggest
approaches.

Ian.