Re: [GNUnet-developers] using $TMPDIR instead of /tmp

[Schanzenbach, Martin]

Hey.

I don't thing the "//" should be an issue (albeit unnecessary).
Maybe the directory is not created?

BR

> On 7. May 2018, at 07:59, Nils Gillmann <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Nils Gillmann transcribed 1.8K bytes:
>> Christian Grothoff transcribed 3.9K bytes:
>>> On 05/06/2018 08:34 PM, Nils Gillmann wrote:
>>>> Christian Grothoff transcribed 2.9K bytes:
>>>>> On 05/05/2018 09:58 PM, Nils Gillmann wrote:
>>>>>> Anyways I just had some time to work on this, could you read
>>>>>> 5f627ce1a78f662d928fa6c73a90342d8bff5cf3 and tell me if I understood
>>>>>> the conversation we had here and your small commit right?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Yes, you got it perfectly right.
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> I've changed the config files, now the problem for us in Nix and Guix
>>>> will be that the silly maximum unix path length will be hit quiet often...
>>>> at least for the Guix build chroot when the chroot is in 
>>>> /tmp/guix-build-gnunet-git1.drv-0/
>>>> 
>>>> The $GNUNET_TMP then gives you diretories like 
>>>> /tmp/guix-build-gnunet-git1.drv-0/gnunet/WAHTEVER-HERE/GOES/NOTHING
>>>> where previously they just landed in /tmp iirc.
>>>> 
>>>> We should make it possible to set the value of GNUNET_TMP before make 
>>>> check,
>>>> for example via the equivalent of export GNUNET_TMP="/tmp"; make check.
>>>> 
>>>> It's quiet unfortunate with the length..
>>> 
>>> Have you considered re-defining the maximum path length? Given that you
>>> are a distro, you should be able to recompile everything necessary
>>> (kernel, libc) with simply a larger value, right?
>> 
>> This time it wasn't the path length. We need to fix some parts of the
>> test suite to adopt to the new (dynamic) locations of the test folders.
>> 
>> I knew this, but I was preoccupied.
>> 
>> I can't do anything today, feel free to revert 
>> 9fbda6db66bf8dc074de6c8792f369801e4e5999
>> or fix the test suites that are affected. I myself can think of fixes 
>> tomorrow afternoon/evening.
>> For now the testsuite is broken with this.
> 
> One fixed, a couple more to go.
> 
> 
> FAIL: test_plugin_unix
> ======================
> 
> May 07 05:37:28-321787 test-plugin-transport-25451 ERROR Could not copy 
> hostkey `test_plugin_hostkey.ecc' to destination 
> `/tmp/guix-build-gnunet-git1.drv-0/gnunet//test-gnunetd-plugin-transport//.local/share/gnunet//private_key.ecc'.
>   Exiting.
> FAIL test_plugin_unix (exit status: 1)
> 
> 
> ^ should it be $GNUNET_TMP/foo or ${GNUNET_TMP}foo ? The two forward slashes 
> are irritating.
> 
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