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[RFC,20/21] t: allow overriding build dir

Message ID c5ae59ce905512aaf4d02d744da90eea982eb065.1727881164.git.ps@pks.im (mailing list archive)
State New
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Series Modernize the build system | expand

Commit Message

Patrick Steinhardt Oct. 2, 2024, 3:16 p.m. UTC 
Our "test-lib.sh" assumes that our build directory is the parent
directory of "t/". While true when using our Makefile, it's not when
using build systems that support out-of-tree builds.

Allow such build systems to override the location of the build directory
with an environment variable.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
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 t/test-lib.sh | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/t/test-lib.sh b/t/test-lib.sh
index e36a21ddf7..6f862621af 100644
--- a/t/test-lib.sh
+++ b/t/test-lib.sh
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@  else
 	# needing to exist.
 	TEST_DIRECTORY=$(cd "$TEST_DIRECTORY" && pwd) || exit 1
 fi
-GIT_BUILD_DIR="${TEST_DIRECTORY%/t}"
+GIT_BUILD_DIR="${GIT_BUILD_DIR:-${TEST_DIRECTORY%/t}}"
 if test "$TEST_DIRECTORY" = "$GIT_BUILD_DIR"
 then
 	echo "PANIC: Running in a $TEST_DIRECTORY that doesn't end in '/t'?" >&2
@@ -514,6 +514,7 @@  unset VISUAL EMAIL LANGUAGE $("$PERL_PATH" -e '
 		PERF_
 		CURL_VERBOSE
 		TRACE_CURL
+		BUILD_DIR
 	));
 	my @vars = grep(/^GIT_/ && !/^GIT_($ok)/o, @env);
 	print join("\n", @vars);