sure, that's not a big deal. and it's nothing a small script couldn't fix if someone would like to this to be easier.
having the testsuite in the installed pike certainly feels like it being more accessible for me despite having a checkout of the source tree, since the tests in the source tree don't work without compiling pike from that tree. (which i never do because i use pikefarm (and now the packages) for that.
the packaged testsuite gives me 44 failed and 151 skipped tests out of 48119 due to some files missing from the source tree. trying to get that down to 0...
greetings, martin.