testsuite: "complete-run.pl.in" file is not replaced by "complete-run.pl" script

[alissonmarcs]

Hello!

In order to run testsuite, I run these commands:

$ cd ~/i3/testcases
$ sudo apt-get install cpanminus
$ sudo cpanm .
$ cd ~/i3/AnyEvent-I3
$ sudo cpanm Module::Install
$ sudo cpanm .

I don't end up with ./complete-run.pl script, so I run ./complete-run.pl.in anyway, but get this error:

Can't locate SocketActivation.pm in @INC (you may need to install the SocketActivation module) (@INC entries checked: /home/alisson/repos/oss/i3/build/AnyEvent-I3/blib/lib @abs_top_builddir@ @abs_top_builddir@/testcases/lib @abs_top_srcdir@/testcases/lib @abs_top_builddir@/AnyEvent-I3/blib/lib /home/alisson/perl5/lib/perl5/5.38.2/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /home/alisson/perl5/lib/perl5/5.38.2 /home/alisson/perl5/lib/perl5/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /home/alisson/perl5/lib/perl5 /usr/lib/perl5/5.38/site_perl /usr/share/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/5.38/vendor_perl /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib/perl5/5.38/core_perl /usr/share/perl5/core_perl) at /home/alisson/perl5/lib/perl5/i3test/Util.pm line 17.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /home/alisson/perl5/lib/perl5/i3test/Util.pm line 17.
Compilation failed in require at ./complete-run.pl.in line 22.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./complete-run.pl.in line 22.

I figure out that missing module is in testcase/lib, so I add it to PERL5LIB environment var and try again, but get other error:

$ export PERL5LIB="/home/alisson/repos/oss/i3/testcases/lib:$PERL5LIB"
$ ./complete-run.pl.in
Possible unintended interpolation of @abs_top_srcdir in string at ./complete-run.pl.in line 159.
Possible unintended interpolation of @abs_top_srcdir in string at ./complete-run.pl.in line 164.
Global symbol "@abs_top_srcdir" requires explicit package name (did you forget to declare "my @abs_top_srcdir"?) at ./complete-run.pl.in line 159.
Global symbol "@abs_top_srcdir" requires explicit package name (did you forget to declare "my @abs_top_srcdir"?) at ./complete-run.pl.in line 164.
BEGIN not safe after errors--compilation aborted at ./complete-run.pl.in line 428.

I don't know how to proceed. I expected that after run the commands to install dependencies, I would have the ./complete-run.pl script.

Some points:

• First time I run the commands to install dependencies, I run without sudo. This is because I did not pay attention when reading documentation, but after that I run with sudo.
• My Perl environment vars are as follows:

$ env | grep PERL
PERL5LIB=/home/alisson/repos/oss/i3/testcases/lib:/home/alisson/perl5/lib/perl5
PERL_MB_OPT=--install_base "/home/alisson/perl5"
PERL_MM_OPT=INSTALL_BASE=/home/alisson/perl5
PERL_LOCAL_LIB_ROOT=/home/alisson/perl5

• I tried with cpan but not success.
• When I try make check in build folder:

$ make check
make: *** No rule to make target 'check'.  Stop.

I tried to follow documentation links to i3test and i3test::Test in testsuite, but are broken. I also tried metacpan but not found.

Any help are welcome =)

[orestisfl]

ninja test is the command you should be running, ignore anything with make _, it is outdated. I also recommend to set up a local perl library instead of running sudo cpanm, see https://michael.stapelberg.ch/cpan/

[orestisfl]

To be precise, if you have all the perl dependencies in place this should be enough to run the tests from a clean clone of the i3 repo:

mkdir -p build
meson setup build
cd build
ninja test

[alissonmarcs]

@orestisfl thank you very much