This tests shows how all promotion to the source dir may be disabled. This includes .install files and manually promoted executables $ dune build -p foo --disable-promotion foo.exe and foo.install are absent $ test -f foo.exe && echo "foo.exe exists" [1] $ test -f foo.install && echo "foo.install exists" [1] now we build without the option and see that they are present: $ dune build -p foo $ test -f foo.exe && echo "foo.exe exists" foo.exe exists $ test -f foo.install && echo "foo.install exists" foo.install exists