Re: [BUG] test suite broken with GETTEXT_POISON=YesPlease

[Michael J Gruber <git@grubix.eu>]

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason venit, vidit, dixit 20.04.2017 23:58:
> As a refresh of everyone's memory (because mine needed it). This is a
> feature I added back in 2011 when the i18n support was initially
> added.
> 
> There was concern at the time that we would inadvertently mark
> plumbing messages for translation, particularly something in a shared
> code path, and this was a way to hopefully smoke out those issues with
> the test suite.
> 
> However compiling with it breaks a couple of dozen tests, I stopped
> digging when I saw some broke back in 2014.
> 
> What should be done about this? I think if we're going to keep them
> they need to be run regularly by something like Travis (Lars CC'd),
> however empirical evidence suggests that not running them is just fine
> too, so should we just remove support for this test mode?
> 
> I don't care, but I can come up with the patch either way, but would
> only be motivated to write the one-time fix for it if some CI system
> is actually running them regularly, otherwise they'll just be subject
> to bitrotting again.
> 

I use that switch when I change something that involves l10n, but
usually I run specific tests only. To be honest: I have to make sure not
to get confused by (nor forget one of) the build flag GETTEXT_POISON and
the environment variable GIT_GETTEXT_POISON. I'm not sure I always
tested what I meant to test...

Michael