[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Have configure set pactest options that it knows.

[Allan McRae]

On 24/12/13 01:05, Jeremy Heiner wrote:
> This patch is not ready for accepting into the repository.
> 
> It does not work for VPATH builds (because the paths to all the .py
> tests are seen as relative to $(builddir)). Dave is working on a fix
> for this VPATH issue, so a real version of this patch must wait to
> incorporate his commit. This patch works fine for in-$(srcdir) builds.
> 
> The purpose of posting it is to follow up Saturday's conversation.
> I think it implements all of Allan's suggestions (if I understood
> correctly). The real commit message would be something like:
> 
> SCRIPTLET_SHELL and LDCONFIG can be set via args to configure, and up
> 'till now those options were passed to pactest by Makefile.am as
> command-line args. That works fine for 'make check', but required
> repeated specification when running pactest manually. This patch makes
> pactest a configured file so it has direct access to those options and
> they no longer need to be specified (by Makefile.am nor by hand).
> 
> Also the default for the pactest '-p' arg is changed to be the pacman
> that the make builds. The '-p' arg is still available, but it should
> now be very rare to have to use it when calling pactest manually.
> ---
>  Makefile.am               |   4 --
>  configure.ac              |   1 +
>  test/pacman/.gitignore    |   1 +
>  test/pacman/pactest.py    | 125 --------------------------------------------
>  test/pacman/pactest.py.in | 128 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  5 files changed, 130 insertions(+), 129 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100755 test/pacman/pactest.py
>  create mode 100644 test/pacman/pactest.py.in

Anyone want to point out a git command to allow us to see the
differences between the old pactest.py and the new pactest.py.in.

Otherwise, I'd need to see this as two patches - one to move the file
and the second to make the adjustments.

Allan