From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 18:36:28 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] contrib/test-hg*.sh: Do not use PYTHON_PATH
Message-ID: <CAMP44s2RTKLO3nhBJcm_KAwq9iHt8ZSXeFuYksYv_JebK-eqrg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <201304171610.49384.tboegi@web.de>

On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 9:10 AM, Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de> wrote:
> The test cases in contrib/remote-helpers use mercurial and python.
> Before the tests are run, we check if python can import
> "mercurial" and "hggit".
> To run this check, python pointed out by PYTHON_PATH is used.
> This may not work when different python binaries exist,
> and PYTHON_PATH is not set:
>  Makefile sets it to the default /usr/bin/python
>  The PATH may point out e.g. /sw/bin/python.
> When /sw/bin/python has the mercurial module installed,
> but /usr/bin/python has not, the test will not be run.
>
> Git respects PYTHON_PATH, hg does not.
> Use python instead of $PYTHON_PATH to check for installed modules.

And this would fail if the distribution doesn't have a 'python'
binary, and instead has python2, python3, etc.

> While at it, split exportX=Y into 2 lines

Do it in a separate patch.

Cheers.

-- 
Felipe Contreras