testing p5-bar that is a depndency of p5-foo

[Bradley Giesbrecht]

On Dec 4, 2010, at 11:06 AM, Mark E. Perkins wrote:

> Greetings. I'm bringing up a new system and decided to give MacPorts  
> a go
> for package management. I use quite a few Perl modules, and I always  
> run
> the included test suite when I install a new module. It's nice that
> MacPorts provides 'port -v test p5-foo' to run the test suite and  
> show me
> the results. But if p5-foo depends on p5-bar (which is built and  
> installed
> before building p5-foo), the test suite for p5-bar is not run with  
> that
> command.
>
> Is there a way to run the 'test' phase on p5-bar "automatically"  
> before
> moving on to p5-foo?  Or must I always sort out the dependencies  
> (e.g., via
> 'port -vy') and run the tests of dependent modules by hand?

Not exactly what you are looking for but you might be able to use  
other port functions in a script to get close to what you desire.

for p5 in `port -q rdeps p5-xml-sax-writer | grep p5-`;do port -v test  
$p5;done

or

for p5 in `port -q echo active | grep ^p5-`;do port -v test $p5;done


Brad