Re: regression test failure

From: Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii(at)sra(dot)co(dot)jp>
Cc: nconway(at)klamath(dot)dyndns(dot)org, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: regression test failure
Date: 2002-08-14 16:06:52
Message-ID: 200208141206.52049.lamar.owen@wgcr.org
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On Tuesday 13 August 2002 03:52 pm, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Tatsuo Ishii writes:
> > The $libdir variable is defined at the compile time and it points to
> > $prefix/lib. Apparently it points to different place while doing
> > regression tests. One idea is replacing $lindir with the absolute path
> > to $prefix/lib. However I wonder this would break some installations,
> > for example RPM.

> You can replace the string '$libdir' in the conversions_create.sql file
> with an absolute directory name during the standalone regression test run.
> This could be done in the regression test driver, where the correct path
> is available as $pkglibdir. Other, less messy solutions don't occur to me
> offhand.

The RPM's patch the regression tests to work -- in a somewhat broken way, but
enough to get useful results. IIRC, I'm already subbing $libdir out in them.
--
Lamar Owen
WGCR Internet Radio
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