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From: Bernhard Voelker <mail@bernhard-voelker.de>
To: bug-gnulib <bug-gnulib@gnu.org>
Subject: tests: dis/allow '.' in PATH?
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2021 23:19:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7efa54e6-e6dc-822b-8eaa-18177a52b0a1@bernhard-voelker.de> (raw)

GNU findutils got a bug report for a failing test in the testsuite [1].
It turned out that the calling environment had the current directory '.'
in PATH.  This triggered a warning in `find -execdir ...` and therefore
made some tests fail.

[1] https://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-findutils/2021-11/msg00004.html

Of course, the findutils tests could (and probably will) remove '.' from PATH,
but I wonder if this should or should not be done for other packages via a change
in 'tests/init.sh' as well?
If a certain test needs '.' in the PATH, it will have to add it anyway.

Any comments?

Have a nice day,
Berny



             reply	other threads:[~2021-11-23 22:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-11-23 22:19 Bernhard Voelker [this message]
2021-11-24  0:10 ` tests: dis/allow '.' in PATH? Paul Eggert
2021-11-24  7:24 ` Kamil Dudka
2021-11-24 23:03   ` Bernhard Voelker
2021-11-24 23:54     ` Paul Eggert
2021-11-26  0:10       ` Bernhard Voelker

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