[seems solved] Re: Test suite failures on static build (was: 5.0.2-test-2 is available)

[Axel Beckert <abe@deuxchevaux.org>]

Hi again,

On Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 05:48:11PM +0100, Axel Beckert wrote:
> > I can't come up with any other explanation for this, either.  There is
> > nowhere in the normal zsh "make" process that would reference a
> > "testhome" path.  *Something* is exporting that into the
> > environment.
> 
> Ah, thanks for that hint. I was looking at the wrong place, sorry.
> 
> The build scripts for the Debian package indeed change $HOME for the
> test-suite:
> 
> HOME="$(CURDIR)/obj-static/testhome" dh_auto_test -B obj-static --parallel || true
> 
> But they do it also for the dynamically linked build where everything
> seems to go fine:
> 
> HOME="$(CURDIR)/obj/testhome" dh_auto_test -B obj --parallel

And indeed, somewhere else in the build scripts for the package
obj/testhome was created, but obj-static/testhome.

Thanks for the help and sorry for the noise.

		Kind regards, Axel
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