src_test() {
# Perform the tests in /var/tmp; that location is more likely
# to have xattr support than /tmp which is often tmpfs.
- local -x TEST_DIR=/var/tmp
+ local -x TEST_DIR="${TEST_DIR:-/var/tmp}"
# Ignore selinux attributes by default, bug #503946.
- local -x TEST_IGNORE_XATTRS="security.selinux"
+ local -x TEST_IGNORE_XATTRS="${TEST_IGNORE_XATTRS:-security.selinux}"
- einfo 'Please note that the tests fail if xattrs are not supported'
- einfo 'by the filesystem used for /var/tmp.'
+ einfo "Please note that the tests fail if xattrs are not supported"
+ einfo "by the filesystem used for ${TEST_DIR}."
+ einfo
+ einfo "The location for tests can be overriden using TEST_DIR variable:"
+ einfo " $ export TEST_DIR=/my/test/place"
+ einfo
+ einfo "Additionally, TEST_IGNORE_XATTRS can be set to control which"
+ einfo "external attributes are ignored by the tests."
+ einfo "See https://bugs.gentoo.org/503946 for details."
+ einfo
distutils-r1_src_test
}