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Functional tests can be run with `meson test -C build --suite installcheck`. Notably, functional tests must be run *after* running `meson install` (Lix's derivation runs the installcheck suite in installCheckPhase so it does this correctly), due to some quirks between Meson and the testing system. As far as I can tell the functional tests are meant to be run after installing anyway, but unfortunately I can't transparently make `meson test --suite installcheck` depend on the install targets. The script that runs the functional tests, meson/run-test.py, checks that `meson install` has happened and fails fast with a (hopefully) helpful error message if any of the functional tests are run before installing. TODO: this change needs reflection in developer documentation Change-Id: I8dcb5fdfc0b6cb17580973d24ad930abd57018f6
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