On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 11:45:00AM -0400, Jeff King wrote: > And of course with non-broken probes, "-v" would also help to see exactly > when the probe is run, using which commands, and what output they > produced. E.g., for SYMLINKS, we should probably drop the stderr > redirection from the probe so we can see how "ln" complains. > > It might also be worth doing a "say >&3" at the end of the check, too, > to tell "-v" users the outcome.
Here is an updated version of my suggestion that does both of those things. I think it should just be squashed into your patch. diff --git a/t/test-lib-functions.sh b/t/test-lib-functions.sh index 2214388..d2ebe24 100644 --- a/t/test-lib-functions.sh +++ b/t/test-lib-functions.sh @@ -232,6 +232,26 @@ test_lazy_prereq () { eval test_prereq_lazily_$1=\$2 } +test_run_prereq_ () { + script=' +mkdir -p "$TRASH_DIRECTORY/prereq-test-dir" && +(cd "$TRASH_DIRECTORY/prereq-test-dir" && +'"$2"' +) +' + say >&3 "checking prerequisite: $1" + say >&3 "$script" + test_eval_ "$script" + eval_ret=$? + rm -rf "$TRASH_DIRECTORY/prereq-test-dir" + if test "$eval_ret" = 0; then + say >&3 "prerequisite $1 ok" + else + say >&3 "prerequisite $1 not fulfilled" + fi + return $eval_ret +} + test_have_prereq () { # prerequisites can be concatenated with ',' save_IFS=$IFS @@ -251,16 +271,11 @@ test_have_prereq () { *) case " $lazy_testable_prereq " in *" $prerequisite "*) - mkdir -p "$TRASH_DIRECTORY/prereq-test-dir" - if ( - eval "script=\$test_prereq_lazily_$prerequisite" && - cd "$TRASH_DIRECTORY/prereq-test-dir" && - eval "$script" - ) + eval "script=\$test_prereq_lazily_$prerequisite" && + if test_run_prereq_ "$prerequisite" "$script" then test_set_prereq $prerequisite fi - rm -fr "$TRASH_DIRECTORY/prereq-test-dir" lazy_tested_prereq="$lazy_tested_prereq$prerequisite " esac ;; diff --git a/t/test-lib.sh b/t/test-lib.sh index 878d000..35739b9 100644 --- a/t/test-lib.sh +++ b/t/test-lib.sh @@ -661,7 +661,7 @@ test_i18ngrep () { test_lazy_prereq SYMLINKS ' # test whether the filesystem supports symbolic links - ln -s x y 2>/dev/null && test -h y 2>/dev/null + ln -s x y && test -h y ' # When the tests are run as root, permission tests will report that -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html