From d9d6f70958d58ce2967fb9c60de697983d1daa85 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lindsey Heagy <lheagy@eos.ubc.ca>
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2016 12:45:51 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] better description of paths in test_docs

---
 tests/docs/test_docs.py | 36 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tests/docs/test_docs.py b/tests/docs/test_docs.py
index cb060743..cee68206 100644
--- a/tests/docs/test_docs.py
+++ b/tests/docs/test_docs.py
@@ -2,19 +2,41 @@ import subprocess
 import unittest
 import os
 
-
 class Doc_Test(unittest.TestCase):
 
-    def test_html(self,rmdir=True):
-        check = subprocess.call(["sphinx-build", "-nW", "-b", "html", "-d", "../../docs/_build/doctrees", "../../docs", "../../docs/_build/html"])
+    @property
+    def path_to_docs(self):
+        dirname, filename = os.path.split(os.path.abspath(__file__))
+        return os.path.sep.join(dirname.split(os.path.sep)[:-2] + ['docs'])
+
+    def test_html(self):
+        doctrees_path = os.path.sep.join(self.path_to_docs.split(os.path.sep) + ['_build']+['doctrees'])
+        html_path = os.path.sep.join(self.path_to_docs.split(os.path.sep) + ['_build']+['html'])
+
+        check = subprocess.call(["sphinx-build", "-nW", "-b", "html", "-d", 
+            "%s"%(doctrees_path) , 
+            "%s"%(self.path_to_docs), 
+            "%s"%(html_path)])
         assert check == 0
 
-    def test_latex(self,rmdir=True):
-        check = subprocess.call(["sphinx-build", "-nW", "-b", "latex", "-d", "../../docs/_build/doctrees", "../../docs", "../../docs/_build/latex"])
+    def test_latex(self):
+        doctrees_path = os.path.sep.join(self.path_to_docs.split(os.path.sep) + ['_build']+['doctrees'])
+        latex_path = os.path.sep.join(self.path_to_docs.split(os.path.sep) + ['_build']+['latex'])
+
+        check = subprocess.call(["sphinx-build", "-nW", "-b", "latex", "-d", 
+            "%s"%(doctrees_path), 
+            "%s"%(self.path_to_docs), 
+            "%s"%(latex_path)])
         assert check == 0
 
-    def test_linkcheck(self,rmdir=True):
-        check = subprocess.call(["sphinx-build", "-nW", "-b", "linkcheck", "-d", "../../docs/_build/doctrees", "../../docs", "../../docs/_build"])
+    def test_linkcheck(self):
+        doctrees_path = os.path.sep.join(self.path_to_docs.split(os.path.sep) + ['_build']+['doctrees'])
+        link_path = os.path.sep.join(self.path_to_docs.split(os.path.sep) + ['_build'])
+
+        check = subprocess.call(["sphinx-build", "-nW", "-b", "linkcheck", "-d", 
+            "%s"%(doctrees_path), 
+            "%s"%(self.path_to_docs), 
+            "%s"%(link_path)])
         assert check == 0 
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':