Location of data directories for the tests

[ianmccul]

I have been attempting to run the test infrastructure locally. Most of the tests are failing with errors like

invalid file path for load. >> ../../tests/test_data_base/common/BlockUniTensor/OriginalBUT.cytnx

With some more investigating, I determined that it is running this code from the directory /home/ian/build/cytnx/tests. That is a subdirectory of my build directory, which is fine - but I have no idea why it would think that the .cytnx files would be located two directories up from there. I guess it should be looking in the source directory.

I have no idea what is different about my setup, I guess maybe people are using a build directory that is inside the source directory?

[ianmccul]

fix in #513

[IvanaGyro]

This issue is related to issue #452 and PR #457.

[ianmccul]

Ahh OK, it seems #513 is then just an alternate solution to #457. I was working from master, so I didn't realize there was already a fix in another branch. But I think #513 is the better solution? The tests should run out of the build directory, rather than the source directory. With #513 they could run from wherever you want, because the tests have the absolute path to the test data directory.

[ianmccul]

So which tree is the actual current development tree? Which tree should I base PR's from?

[pcchen]

I think the current practice is to use dev-master for the PR. After we merge several PRs and make sure everything is OK, then we merge dev-master into master and (optionally) make a binary release.

[IvanaGyro]

I am fine with #513, but it conflicts with dev-master now.

[ianmccul]

I'll redo the PR based on dev-master