[Libreoffice] Brittle unit test dependencies

Stephan Bergmann sbergman at redhat.com
Mon Dec 19 07:13:10 PST 2011


On 12/19/2011 03:42 PM, Bjoern Michaelsen wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 02:21:45PM +0000, Michael Meeks wrote:
>> 	My hope of course, is that as we finish gbuild, and move our solver to
>> look ever more like an install set, it'll get easier and less hacky to
>> run these unit tests; eg. with your nice 'services' work, we could even
>> install the .component files into services/ directly into the build tree
>> it seems to me.
>
> My hope would be that once we are completely on gbuild, we could make gbuild
> (including tests) relying only on WORKDIR, not on OUTDIR/solver. The only
> reason to keep OUTDIR around would be that scp2 doesnt understand anything
> else. Then we could either:
> - make scp2 pack from WORKDIR and forget about solver
> - or replace scp2 with something sane
> "something sane" could be something in gbuild that populates a installset while
> building (i.e. a new OUTDIR, that incedentally looks like an install)

Just to be clear:  This is unrelated to and does not solve the problem 
of those non-obvious runtime dependencies.

Stephan


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