Run tests in a folder with a long path

[isuruf]

This would reveal any problems of installing the package into a folder with a long path.

[msarahan]

Can you point to problems you've encountered? I am aware of conda installing things into paths longer than 260 characters on Windows causing problems. I'm not aware of any issues on mac or linux, though.

[isuruf]

It's not a problem of conda-build. It was a problem in the package itself. (It was storing where the package was installed in a buffer too small.)
When building the package with conda-build if the test environment had a long prefix, I would have noticed this problem

Ref: conda-forge/gap-feedstock#4

[msarahan]

Ah, I think that is actually a problem with conda-build, though. I think this is the same as #1674 - conda-build is not accounting for the null terminator or something like that. But I though our prefix is 255 chars - your 256 char buf should have been enough?

[isuruf]

It wasn't storing the prefix, it was storing <prefix>/lib/gap which is longer than 256 because prefix is 256 chars long.

[msarahan]

all right. Well, it's easy to turn on since we already have it for the build env, so I'll go ahead and implement this sometime soon.

[isuruf]

Thanks.

[msarahan]

fixed by #1799 - closing

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