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daxim
daxim

Reputation: 39158

What's the build script for a module distribution?

I have test failures. I want to see the details and experiment and perhaps debug, so I unpack the module dist. Now I expect to find some analogue to Setup.hs, setup.py, Build.PL, Rakefile etc., but there are no executables. How do you manually build and test verbosely?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 122

Answers (1)

Christopher Bottoms
Christopher Bottoms

Reputation: 11168

Installing modules

First I'd check more into zef

zef install module::name
zef test    /path/to/module
zef --help

zef comes with Rakudo-Star.

If you make a change and want to reinstall the module with the change and it doesn't want to install it, you can "force" it:

zef install --force-install ./relative/path/to/module

Or, if you bump the version in META6.json, you don't have to force it:

zef install ./relative/path/to/module

Testing modules

To test a module, you can use prove to run all of the tests in its test directory:

prove --exec=perl6 -r t/

To run an individual test, simply use perl6:

perl6 t/test.t

See also

Running Tests

You also might be interested in 6pm, but I don't have enough experience with it to comment on it at this time.

Upvotes: 2

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