Hey all, We’re building a compiler in OCaml and setting up our project with Dune. We have many, many program files in many directories and subdirectories that we would like to create expect tests for. Currently we are putting the exact same ‘dune’ file in every subdirectory, but we’d like to see if…

You are using a top-level Makefile, so you could use it to generate the identical dune file in all test directories — if nobody comes up with a good solution within Dune. Hard linking all these dune files would be another option to keep them in sync.

The symlinks should work at the moment. You can also use (include ../dune.common). We also started thinking about how to improve this pattern and we have a few ideas. We did a first attempt there although it didn’t feel generic enough. We don’t have a new concrete design yet, but it’s on the todo l…

I get this error when I add a few symlinks: halair ~/scm/stanc3/test/integration/examples-bad (master) $ dune runtest Error: exception Sys_error("test/integration/examples-bad/algebra_solver/dune: Too many levels of symbolic links") Backtrace: Raised by primitive operation at file "stdlib.ml", line…

Dune tests in subdirectories

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sean November 29, 2018, 5:33pm 5

Woops, I was messing up my symlinks and got sidetracked by the awesome Dune reference

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Dune tests in subdirectories

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