Re: Problems with the test framework and non-flattened namespaces

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 1 Mar 2011, at 11:15, Niels Grewe wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> I've just tried to run the testsuites on a system that has non-flattened
> namespaces enabled and it turns out that causes a little problem. The
> build_and_run() function in gnustep-tests expects to find the
> executables in $testdir/obj, whereas with a non-flattened install they
> are in $testdir/obj/$GNUSTEP_TARGET_LDIR/, where $GNUSTEP_TARGET_LDIR is
> some combination of architecture, os and runtime-library combination.
> (e.g. x86_64/linux-gnu/gnu-gnu-gnu/ on my machine).
> Initially I thought that this could be easily fixed, but it turns out
> that $GNUSTEP_TARGET_LDIR is only defined in makefiles and I don't see
> how I can get at that variable from a shell script. Could somebody
> perhaps help me out here?

I've modified the code so that it should override the destination and always 
place executables in the obj subdirectory even on a non-flattened layout.
Within the testsuite we clean old test information and rebuild each file on 
every test run, so there's no point keeping binaries for different 
architectures/library combos in separate subdirectories.
Hopefully, the trick of overriding GNUSTEP_OBJ_DIR will let us keep the 
executables in a single location, while allowing your non-flattened structure 
to be used elsewhere outside the test framework.
Please let me know if this works or not.