From: "Randall S. Becker" <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>
To: "'Jeff King'" <peff@peff.net>, <randall.s.becker@rogers.com>
Cc: <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [Patch 0/5] Add exclusions for tests requiring cvs where cvs is not installed
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2019 15:30:55 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <000101d5221e$88aa67d0$99ff3770$@nexbridge.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190613190644.GC27217@sigill.intra.peff.net>
On June 13, 2019 3:07 PM, Peff wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 02:53:08PM -0400, randall.s.becker@rogers.com
> wrote:
>
> > From: "Randall S. Becker" <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>
> >
> > t9600 to t9604 currently depend on cvs to function correctly,
> > otherwise all of those tests fail. This patch follows an existing
> > pattern of from the t9400 series by attempting to run cvs without
> > arguments, which succeeds if installed, and skipping the test if the
> > command fails.
>
> Hrm. I don't have cvs installed, and those tests are properly skipped for me.
> That's because they include lib-cvs.sh, which has:
>
> if ! type cvs >/dev/null 2>&1
> then
> skip_all='skipping cvsimport tests, cvs not found'
> test_done
> fi
>
> Why doesn't that work for you? Does the "type" check not work (e.g., you
> have something called "cvs" but it does not behave as we expect)? If so, then
> it sounds like we just need to harmonize that with the other checks.
>
> It also sounds like the t9400 tests could be using lib-cvs to avoid duplicating
> logic, though it might need some refactoring (they don't need cvsps, for
> example).
The t9400 tests use the same technique as I used - and I mistakenly trusted it. The type check does not fail.
if ! type cvs >/dev/null 2>&1
then
echo "oops"
fi
does not print "oops". type is reporting $?=0 and a legitimate file in /usr/local/bin/cvs. Confusingly, t9400 skips, but type reports a valid path. I think the test done in the t9400 series is not correct.
cvs >/dev/null 2>&1 on the platform causes $?=255, while a blah >/dev/null 2>&1 reports $?=127.
There is something else going on causing the cvs-related tests to fail that this patch might be hiding. We do have cvsps so I'm now much more confused by the whole thing.
Let's drop this patch for now. I was premature on this patch and need to dig deeper as to what is going on.
Randall
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-06-13 19:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-06-13 18:53 [Patch 0/5] Add exclusions for tests requiring cvs where cvs is not installed randall.s.becker
2019-06-13 18:53 ` [Patch 1/5] t9600-cvsimport: exclude test if " randall.s.becker
2019-06-13 18:53 ` [Patch 2/5] t9601-cvsimport-vendor-branch: " randall.s.becker
2019-06-13 18:53 ` [Patch 3/5] t9602-cvsimport-branches-tags: " randall.s.becker
2019-06-13 18:53 ` [Patch 4/5] t9603-cvsimport-patchsets: " randall.s.becker
2019-06-13 18:53 ` [Patch 5/5] t9604-cvsimport-timestamps: " randall.s.becker
2019-06-13 19:06 ` [Patch 0/5] Add exclusions for tests requiring cvs where " Jeff King
2019-06-13 19:30 ` Randall S. Becker [this message]
2019-06-13 22:46 ` Randall S. Becker
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