On Friday 23 September 2005 14:01, Jean Delvare wrote: > Hi John, > > [John Vandenberg] > > > When I run the tests in a quilt checkout, if I have a patches > > directory, all hell breaks loose, During the test cases, quilt walk > > up the directory tree until it finds the `quilt' patches directory. > > Can this be avoided without altering QUILT_PATCHES? If QUILT_PATCHES > > needs to be different, is it reasonable for test/Makefile to set it to > > a value that is not likey to be used by real people? > > I've worked on this problem earlier today. I noticed that some tests > worked in the conditions you describe, and most didn't. The difference > is that the former create the patches subdirectory explicitely before > running any quilt command that needs it. So I modified all tests to do > the same. I think this is the most simple and efficient solution to the > problem. Picking a different $QUILT_PATCHES could always break, you > never know how people name their own directories. > > What do you think?
Oops, I just did the same and submitted it before seeing this email. So the test suite works in this condition now. Thanks, Andreas. _______________________________________________ Quilt-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/quilt-dev
