is 'make check' supposed to work on ~master ?

[Stephan Bergmann]

On 12/13/2012 10:37 AM, Noel Grandin wrote:
> On 2012-12-13 11:35, Stephan Bergmann wrote:
>> In general, the online update mechanism spawns threads that it doesn't
>> properly join again before exit, which is a notorious problem with
>> tests (that often run quickly enough to terminate soffice.bin while
>> the online update check is still in progress),
>
> Is it not possible to pass in a parameter disabling the
> online-update-check? That should make the tests happier.

I have the faint memory that we indeed somehow disabled it at least for 
some of the tests in the past, but can't find any relevant code. 
(There's apparently no such command-line parameter for soffice, and the 
code at extensions/source/update/check/updatecheckjob.cxx also does not 
check any environment variable or similar.)

Stephan