[New-bugs-announce] [issue45695] Out-of-tree builds are not tested.

[Eric Snow]

New submission from Eric Snow <ericsnowcurrently at gmail.com>:

Currently we don't test builds done outside the source tree, neither on GitHub nor the buildbots. [1]  As a result, such builds get broken occasionally.  I've certainly broken then a couple times, inadvertently.  It would be helpful if we tested out-of-tree builds on GitHub, or at least on a stable buildbot.

FTR, to do an out-of-tree build locally and test it:

mkdir ../build
cd ../build
../cpython/configure
make
./python -m test


[1] Actually I recently added test.test_tools.test_freeze.TestFreeze.test_freeze_simple_script which happens to do an out-of-tree build incidentally.  However, we should be testing out-of-tree builds explicitly.

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components: Build
messages: 405568
nosy: christian.heimes, eric.snow, gregory.p.smith, gvanrossum, steve.dower
priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: test needed
status: open
title: Out-of-tree builds are not tested.
versions: Python 3.10, Python 3.11

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