Re: [PATCH 0/2] t/lib-gpg: a gpgsm fix, a minor improvement, and a question

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Feb 12, 2019, 02:38 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqlg2lg28m.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <20190212004433.GJ13301@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

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> But it looks from the output like it just mentions every prereq that
> wasn't satisfied. I don't think that's particularly useful to show for
> all users, since most of them are platform things that cannot be changed
> (and you'd never get the list to zero, since some of them are mutually
> exclusive).

The only thing that could be of interest is "We are skipping tests around $SVN, because your Git was built without a feature that requires platform support of feature $SVN, which in turn was caused because NO_$SVN=UnfortunatelyYes was in your config.mak.autogen file. You could 'apt-get install $SVN' to lift this artificial limitation in your Git if you wanted to".

But the test prereq is probably a bit too roundabout way for that kind of information ;-)