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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/3] t/Makefile: introduce TEST_SHELL_PATH
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2017 14:50:15 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171025215015.irnyvk7kvmxqkniy@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1.1710252334000.6482@virtualbox>

On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 11:35:44PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> > > Or alternatively we could prefix the assignment by
> > > 
> > > 	test -n "$TEST_SHELL_PATH" ||
> > > 
> > > or use the pattern
> > > 
> > > 	TEST_SHELL_PATH="${TEST_SHELL_PATH:-[...]}"
> > 
> > I'm not quite sure what this is fixing.  Is there a case where we
> > wouldn't have TEST_SHELL_PATH set when running the tests? I think there
> > are already other bits that assume that "make" has been run (including
> > the existing reference to $SHELL_PATH, I think).
> 
> The way I read your patch, setting the environment variable differnently
> at test time than at build time would be ignored: GIT-BUILD-OPTIONS is
> sourced and would override whatever you told the test suite to use.
> 
> I guess it does not really matter all that much in practice.

Right. I find that behavior mildly irritating at times, but it's
consistent with other items like NO_PERL, etc. E.g., you cannot do:

  make NO_PERL=
  cd t
  NO_PERL=Nope ./t3701-*

and disable perl. It's testing what got built.

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2017-10-25 21:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-19 21:01 [PATCH 0/3] making test-suite tracing more useful Jeff King
2017-10-19 21:03 ` [PATCH 1/3] test-lib: silence "-x" cleanup under bash Jeff King
2017-10-19 21:07 ` [PATCH 2/3] t5615: avoid re-using descriptor 4 Jeff King
2017-10-19 21:46   ` Stefan Beller
2017-10-19 23:23     ` Jeff King
2017-10-20  5:50       ` Jeff King
2017-10-20 21:27         ` Stefan Beller
2017-10-20 22:46           ` Jeff King
2017-10-21  0:19             ` Simon Ruderich
2017-10-21  2:02               ` Junio C Hamano
2017-10-21  3:23               ` Jeff King
2017-10-19 21:08 ` [PATCH 3/3] test-lib: make "-x" work with "--verbose-log" Jeff King
2017-10-23 10:56   ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-10-20 22:53 ` [PATCH 4/3] t/Makefile: introduce TEST_SHELL_PATH Jeff King
2017-10-20 23:50   ` SZEDER Gábor
2017-10-21  3:12     ` Jeff King
2017-10-23 11:01   ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-10-24  1:31     ` Jeff King
2017-10-25 21:35       ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-10-25 21:50         ` Jeff King [this message]
2017-10-27 14:26           ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-10-23 11:04 ` [PATCH 0/3] making test-suite tracing more useful Johannes Schindelin
2017-10-24  1:32   ` Jeff King
2017-12-08 10:46 ` [PATCH v2 0/4] " Jeff King
2017-12-08 10:47   ` [PATCH v2 1/4] test-lib: silence "-x" cleanup under bash Jeff King
2017-12-08 10:47   ` [PATCH v2 2/4] t5615: avoid re-using descriptor 4 Jeff King
2017-12-08 10:47   ` [PATCH v2 3/4] test-lib: make "-x" work with "--verbose-log" Jeff King
2017-12-08 10:47   ` [PATCH v2 4/4] t/Makefile: introduce TEST_SHELL_PATH Jeff King
2017-12-08 15:08     ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-12-08 22:00       ` Jeff King
2017-12-09 13:44         ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-12-10 14:23           ` Jeff King
2017-12-11 20:37             ` Junio C Hamano
2017-12-15 10:41               ` Jeff King
2017-12-15 16:58                 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-12-21  9:47                   ` Jeff King

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