How can we add tests for the Julia side of GAPJulia?

[sebasguts]

I would like to add some tests to the Julia side of GAPJulia. The problem is that we need a path to an appropriate GAP executable to start GAP in Julia. So how can we add a portable test setup on the Julia side? Should we use environment variables?

[sebasguts]

@ThomasBreuer @fingolfin @wbhart

[fingolfin]

Well, how do you locally load LibGAP.jl into Julia? For my use, I have a shells script in LibGAP.jl, which starts julia and asks it to execute code like this:

include("src/initialization.jl")
libgap.run_it("/path/to/gap")

So you could do something similar (and also in Travis), just add third command which runs the tests (e.g. by executing test/runtests.jl to follow the Pkg.jl conventions). That script could be generated by a ./configure script (we run ./configure GAPPATH for JuliaInterface and JuliaExperimental when building on Travis anyway, might as well add LibGAP.jl).

[sebasguts]

Thanks for that suggestion, that is what we will do: Let the script be generated by the configure script!