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+From: Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>\r
+To: Charles Celerier <cceleri@cs.stanford.edu>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
+Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/5] test: Made T010-help-test and T020-compact tests\r
+ more portable.\r
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+Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 10:49:16 +0300\r
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+On Sat, 10 May 2014, Charles Celerier <cceleri@cs.stanford.edu> wrote:\r
+> The tests T010-help-test and T020-compact use the files have-man and\r
+> have-compact, respectively, as indicators of how notmuch is configured.\r
+> These were symbolic links to true and false for use in bash tests.\r
+> Unfortunately, the paths to true and false may not be the same on all\r
+> platforms (e.g. on Mac OS X they are in /usr/bin), so hard-coding\r
+> symbolic links to /bin/true and /bin/false is not portable. This patch\r
+> writes a 1 to have-man and have-compact to indicate true, and a 0 to\r
+> indicate false, instead. The tests now read the contents of the file to\r
+> determine the truth value instead of following the symbolic link.\r
+\r
+Please see [1] and [2] for what I think a better alternative.\r
+\r
+BR,\r
+Jani.\r
+\r
+\r
+[1] id:1401435785-2894-1-git-send-email-jani@nikula.org\r
+[2] id:1401435785-2894-2-git-send-email-jani@nikula.org\r
+\r
+\r
+\r
+>\r
+> Signed-off-by: Charles Celerier <cceleri@cs.stanford.edu>\r
+> ---\r
+> test/Makefile.local | 8 ++++----\r
+> test/T010-help-test.sh | 2 +-\r
+> test/T020-compact.sh | 2 +-\r
+> 3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)\r
+>\r
+> diff --git a/test/Makefile.local b/test/Makefile.local\r
+> index d622eaf..8fd333c 100644\r
+> --- a/test/Makefile.local\r
+> +++ b/test/Makefile.local\r
+> @@ -37,16 +37,16 @@ $(dir)/parse-time: $(dir)/parse-time.o parse-time-string/parse-time-string.o\r
+> \r
+> $(dir)/have-compact: Makefile.config\r
+> ifeq ($(HAVE_XAPIAN_COMPACT),1)\r
+> - ln -sf /bin/true $@\r
+> + echo 1 > $@\r
+> else\r
+> - ln -sf /bin/false $@\r
+> + echo 0 > $@\r
+> endif\r
+> \r
+> $(dir)/have-man: Makefile.config\r
+> ifeq ($(HAVE_SPHINX)$(HAVE_RST2MAN),00)\r
+> - ln -sf /bin/false $@\r
+> + echo 0 > $@\r
+> else\r
+> - ln -sf /bin/true $@\r
+> + echo 1 > $@\r
+> endif\r
+> \r
+> .PHONY: test check\r
+> diff --git a/test/T010-help-test.sh b/test/T010-help-test.sh\r
+> index 77410bc..02162ca 100755\r
+> --- a/test/T010-help-test.sh\r
+> +++ b/test/T010-help-test.sh\r
+> @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ test_expect_success 'notmuch --help' 'notmuch --help'\r
+> test_expect_success 'notmuch help' 'notmuch help'\r
+> test_expect_success 'notmuch --version' 'notmuch --version'\r
+> \r
+> -if ${TEST_DIRECTORY}/have-man; then\r
+> +if grep -q 1 ${TEST_DIRECTORY}/have-man ; then\r
+> test_expect_success 'notmuch --help tag' 'notmuch --help tag'\r
+> test_expect_success 'notmuch help tag' 'notmuch help tag'\r
+> else\r
+> diff --git a/test/T020-compact.sh b/test/T020-compact.sh\r
+> index 77bb963..0139584 100755\r
+> --- a/test/T020-compact.sh\r
+> +++ b/test/T020-compact.sh\r
+> @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ notmuch tag +tag1 \*\r
+> notmuch tag +tag2 subject:Two\r
+> notmuch tag -tag1 +tag3 subject:Three\r
+> \r
+> -if ! ${TEST_DIRECTORY}/have-compact; then\r
+> +if grep -q 0 ${TEST_DIRECTORY}/have-compact; then\r
+> test_begin_subtest "Compact unsupported: error message"\r
+> output=$(notmuch compact --quiet 2>&1)\r
+> test_expect_equal "$output" "notmuch was compiled against a xapian version lacking compaction support.\r
+> -- \r
+> 1.8.5.2 (Apple Git-48)\r
+>\r
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