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[v6,08/15] Makefile + test-lib.sh: don't prefer cmake-built to make-built git

Message ID patch-v6-08.15-b8448c7a8a6-20221206T001617Z-avarab@gmail.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series cmake: document, fix on *nix, add CI | expand

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Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason Dec. 6, 2022, 2:09 a.m. UTC
Per ee9e66e4e76 (cmake: avoid editing t/test-lib.sh, 2022-10-18) and
the surrounding discussion the goal of that change was to have
building with cmake and:

	(cd t && ./t0001-init.sh)

Work, to do so we need some way to make the test-lib.sh aware that we
have a build in contrib/buildsystems/out. The downside of doing it via
the GIT-BUILD-DIR facility in ee9e66e4e76 is:

- A "remove this file while at it" only fits into the Makefile
  dependency graph if we "FORCE" a shell command to be run, so doing it
  this way precludes speeding up the Makefile by e.g. making use of the
  "$(file)" function (for which I've got follow-up patches).

- If you build with make, then with cmake, and then e.g.:

	make -C t prove

  We'll run the tests against the cmake version of the tests, not the
  "make" built ones. It's important to get any subtle interaction
  between two conflicting build systems right.

Now we'll instead check if the top-level "git" exists, and only if it
doesn't look for the one built by cmake. This ensures that we'll pick
it up as required when the user is using CMake, without being subject
to the odd interaction of flip-flopping between the two
environments.

It also means that we can remove the rule to remove the
"GIT-BUILD-DIR", if we get to creating "GIT-BUILD-OPTIONS" in the
top-level git. That's because now when building with both "make" and
"cmake" we will always prefer the former for running the tests, so
there's no need to remove the "GIT-BUILD-DIR" file to resolve the
conflicts between the two.

In practice users are building with either "make" or "cmake", and not
mixing the two, but in a subsequent change we'll provide an out for
that "make"-preferring selection behavior, by having "ctest" runs
always prefer the "cmake" built one.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
---
 Makefile      | 1 -
 t/test-lib.sh | 3 ++-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index b258fdbed86..c602ce57e64 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -3150,7 +3150,6 @@  else
 	@echo RUNTIME_PREFIX=\'false\' >>$@+
 endif
 	@if cmp $@+ $@ >/dev/null 2>&1; then $(RM) $@+; else mv $@+ $@; fi
-	@if test -f GIT-BUILD-DIR; then rm GIT-BUILD-DIR; fi
 
 ### Detect Python interpreter path changes
 ifndef NO_PYTHON
diff --git a/t/test-lib.sh b/t/test-lib.sh
index 36358811a0f..c7d55ff0796 100644
--- a/t/test-lib.sh
+++ b/t/test-lib.sh
@@ -51,7 +51,8 @@  fi
 # For CMake the top-level source directory is different from our build
 # directory. With the top-level Makefile they're the same.
 GIT_SOURCE_DIR="$GIT_BUILD_DIR"
-if test -f "$GIT_BUILD_DIR/GIT-BUILD-DIR"
+if test ! -x "$GIT_BUILD_DIR/git" &&
+	test -f "$GIT_BUILD_DIR/GIT-BUILD-DIR"
 then
 	GIT_BUILD_DIR="$(cat "$GIT_BUILD_DIR/GIT-BUILD-DIR")" || exit 1
 	# On Windows, we must convert Windows paths lest they contain a colon