Re: Include LOCPATH in default test environment

[Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>]

On 06/11/2014 12:24 PM, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Jun 2014, Florian Weimer wrote:
>
> > On 06/05/2014 12:44 AM, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> > > Tests run using the default $(make-test-out) automatically get
> > > GCONV_PATH and LC_ALL set, whether or not those environment variables
> > > are actually needed for the individual test.  However, they do not get
> > > LOCPATH set, meaning that a large number of tests have -ENV settings
> > > just to set LOCPATH.
> >
> > Is it still necessary to ensure manually that the localedata subdirectory is
> > built in time, before tests relying on LOCPATH run?
>
> If a directory contains tests using locales, my understanding is that its
> Depend file should mention localedata to ensure that localedata comes
> first in sysd-sorted.

I don't think this is possible for locale/ because that would introduce 
a cyclic dependency.

What I'm trying to say is that it might make sense to artificially 
introduce a barrier between building localedata/ and running the tests, 
if that's possible, so that it's no longer necessary to touch the Depend 
files.

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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security Team