buildtest comes with option to build test for perl packages to verify perl packages are working as expected. The Perl tests are coming from the repository https://github.com/HPC-buildtest/Perl-buildtest-config
In buildtest this repository is defined by variable BUILDTEST_PERL_REPO that
can be tweaked by environment variable or configuration file (config.yaml)
buildtest supports tab completion for option --perl-package which will show
a list of perl packages available for testing.
To illustrate the tab completion feature see command below
siddis14@prometheus buildtest-framework]$ _buildtest build --perl-package Algorithm AnyData AppConfig Authen
To build perl package test you must specify a Perl module. buildtest will
generate the binarytest along with any test from perl package specified by
option --perl-package.
The command _buildtest build -s Perl/5.26.0-GCCcore-6.4.0 --perl-package AnyData
will build Perl test along with Perl package AnyData
.. program-output:: cat scripts/perl_packagetest_AnyData.txt
buildtest will check if perl package exists for particular perl module specified
in --software to ensure tests are not created that are bound to fail due to
missing package.
To illustrate see the following example where we try building test for perl package
Algorithm.
_buildtest build -s Perl/5.26.0-GCCcore-6.4.0 --perl-package Algorithm
.. program-output:: cat scripts/perl_packagetest_Algorithm.txt
This option is compatible with --shell and --job-template if you want to build
tests with different shell or create job scripts