From: "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
To: "SZEDER Gábor" <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] travis-ci: remove bogus 'pyenv' in the Linux jobs
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2020 22:20:05 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200721222004.GA1667453@crustytoothpaste.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200721161225.6769-1-szeder.dev@gmail.com>
On 2020-07-21 at 16:12:25, SZEDER Gábor wrote:
> In our test suite, when 'git p4' invokes a Git command as a
> subprocesses, then it should run the 'git' binary we are testing.
> Unfortunately, this is not the case in the 'linux-clang' and
> 'linux-gcc' jobs on Travis CI, where 'git p4' runs the system
> '/usr/bin/git' instead.
>
> Travis CI's default Linux image includes 'pyenv', and all Python
> invocations that involve PATH lookup go through 'pyenv', e.g. our
> 'PYTHON_PATH=$(which python3)' sets '/opt/pyenv/shims/python3' as
> PYTHON_PATH, which in turn will invoke '/usr/bin/python3'. Alas, the
> 'pyenv' version included in this image is buggy, and prepends the
> directory containing the Python binary to PATH even if that is a
> system directory already in PATH near the end. Consequently, 'git p4'
> in those jobs ends up with its PATH starting with '/usr/bin', and then
> runs '/usr/bin/git'.
Ouch. So we're testing git-p4, but not the git binary underlying it.
Fixing this definitely seems like a good idea.
--
brian m. carlson: Houston, Texas, US
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-21 22:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-21 16:12 [PATCH] [RFC] travis-ci: remove bogus 'pyenv' in the Linux jobs SZEDER Gábor
2020-07-21 16:23 ` Eric Sunshine
2020-07-21 20:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-07-23 21:38 ` [PATCH v2] ci: use absolute PYTHON_PATH " SZEDER Gábor
2020-07-23 22:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-07-24 13:58 ` SZEDER Gábor
2020-07-21 22:20 ` brian m. carlson [this message]
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