notmuch/test/test-lib-common.sh, branch 0.38

test: support testing notmuch as installed

2023-07-21T10:41:50Z

We put some effort into testing the built copy rather than some installed copy. On the other hand for people like packagers, testing the installed copy is also of interest. When NOTMUCH_TEST_INSTALLED is set to a nonempty value, tests do not require a built notmuch tree or running configure. Some of the tests marked as broken when running against installed notmuch are probably fixable.

test: Guess a value for NOTMUCH_PYTHON

2023-07-21T10:07:43Z

python3 will work for many people, and reduce the friction to running the tests without running configure first.

perf-test: allow running test_emacs from performance test suite.

2022-02-25T12:38:03Z

test_require_external prereq has to move to test-lib-common.sh, and the new shell functions print_emacs_header and time_emacs are provided. The somewhat indirect way of printing the output is to avoid the extra "" present on string values from emacsclient.

test: more style fixes

2021-05-17T10:28:01Z

In order to fit the git coding style. Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras

test: unbreak performance tests

2017-12-05T01:04:38Z

In 8e7fb88237aedea22 Jani replaced the use of $(pwd -P) to find the TEST_DIRECTORY in order to better support out of tree builds. Unfortunately the performance-tests need a different value for the variable and were thus broken. This commit splits out the setting of this variable for the two sets of tests. Performance tests still don't work out of tree, because the handling of the downloaded corpus needs to be updated.

test: fix test database backup/restore location

2017-10-29T16:30:30Z

backup_database() and restore_database() used to store the backups in the test specific temporary directory, through the current working directory being there. Commit 8e7fb88237ae ("test: use source and build paths in test-lib-common.sh") started using a test specific backup directories under the build tree test directory. This was in error. Switch back to the old location, but using paths to the location instead of relying on current working directory. Reported by Daniel Kahn Gillmor .

test: remove --root option and fix TMP_DIRECTORY cleanup

2017-10-21T14:32:20Z

The primary motivation here is to fix TMP_DIRECTORY cleanup prior to running each test when the current working directory is not the test subdirectory. Tests with failures would leave their TMP_DIRECTORY directory behind for debugging, and repeated out-of-tree test runs would have old temp directories. (This lead to e.g. T310-emacs.sh hanging because emacs would prompt for overwriting files.) We remove the likely anyway defunct --root test option while at it, just to be on the safe side when doing 'rm -rf' on the TMP_DIRECTORY.

test: mkdir and cd to $TMP_DIRECTORY instead of $test for testing

2017-10-20T22:55:10Z

$TMP_DIRECTORY is a full path, while $test is not.

test: use source and build paths in test-lib-common.sh

2017-10-20T22:54:43Z

Make a distinction between source and build directories. The expectation is that anyone sourcing test-lib-common.sh has sourced export-dirs.sh.

test: move generate_message, add_message into test-lib-common.sh

2017-08-20T11:34:03Z

The plan is to use at least the former in the perf test suite.