From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Cc: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>,
"Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>, Git <git@vger.kernel.org>,
"Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] t/Makefile: add a rule to re-run previously-failed tests
Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2016 09:55:39 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1609040952110.129229@virtualbox> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vpq8tva1cou.fsf@anie.imag.fr>
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Hi,
On Fri, 2 Sep 2016, Matthieu Moy wrote:
> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
>
> > Hi Ævar,
> >
> > On Fri, 2 Sep 2016, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> >
> >> On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 5:05 PM, Johannes Schindelin
> >> <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> >>
> >> > The biggest problem with Strawberry Perl is that it is virtually
> >> > impossible to build the Subversion-Perl bindings using the Git for
> >> > Windows SDK when using Strawberry Perl.
> >> >
> >> > Which pretty much precludes it from being used in Git for Windows.
> >> >
> >> > And then there are the path issues... Git's Perl scripts are pretty
> >> > certain that they live in a POSIX-y environment. Which MSYS2 Perl
> >> > provides. Strawberry Perl not.
> >>
> >> This might be me missing the point, and I'm really just trying to be
> >> helpful here and make "prove" work for you because it's awesome, but
> >> as far as just you running this for development purposes does any of
> >> this SVN stuff matter? I.e. you can build Git itself not with
> >> Strawberry, but just use Strawberry to get a working copy of "prove".
> >
> > Yes, the SVN stuff matters, because of the many t9*svn* tests (which, BTW
> > take a substantial time to run). So if I run the test suite, I better do
> > it with a perl.exe in the PATH that can run the SVN tests. Otherwise I
> > might just as well not bother with running the entire test suite...
>
> Maybe something like
>
> \path\to\strawberry-perl\perl.exe \path\to\prove ...
>
> without changing the PATH would work. I wouldn't call that convenient
> though.
Wouldn't Perl-specific environment variables set by Strawberry Perl (such
as PERL_PATH bleed through to the spawned child processes?
We're dancing around the issue, really. Rather than piling workaround on
workaround with no end in sight, I think it is time to admit that using
prove(1) on Windows is just not a good solution for the problem to re-run
failed tests.
Ciao,
Johannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-04 8:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-29 7:02 [PATCH] t/Makefile: add a rule to re-run previously-failed tests Johannes Schindelin
2016-06-29 17:18 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-07-01 13:57 ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-06-30 6:37 ` Jeff King
2016-07-01 14:00 ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-08-29 13:46 ` [PATCH v2] " Johannes Schindelin
2016-08-30 8:43 ` Jeff King
2016-08-30 19:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-31 10:36 ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-09-01 3:59 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2016-09-01 8:27 ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-09-01 16:57 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2016-09-01 22:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-09-02 7:35 ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-09-08 20:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-30 20:48 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2016-08-30 20:51 ` Jeff King
2016-08-30 20:58 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2016-08-31 10:29 ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-08-31 13:42 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2016-08-31 15:05 ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-09-02 10:25 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2016-09-02 12:08 ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-09-02 16:36 ` Matthieu Moy
2016-09-04 7:55 ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
2016-09-04 9:19 ` Matthieu Moy
2017-01-27 14:17 ` [PATCH v3] " Johannes Schindelin
2017-01-27 17:07 ` Jeff King
2017-01-27 17:21 ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-01-27 17:21 ` [PATCH v4] " Johannes Schindelin
2017-01-27 18:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-01-30 15:35 ` Johannes Schindelin
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