On Thu, Mar 09 2017, David Bremner <david@tethera.net> wrote:

> From: Mikhail <mp39590@gmail.com>
>
> Make test-lib-common.sh load test-lib-<$PLATFORM>.sh to create
> additional shim for platform specifics.
>
> Use test-lib-FREEBSD.sh to call GNU utilities instead of native ones.
>
> - amended by db following Tomi's suggestions
> ---
>
> I haven't tested this, except to verify it doesn't crash under GNU/Linux

I cannot test as I will not pollute my purish Frisbee KVM image with
coreutils package -- I could play with second image but I', too lazy
to do so.

Anyway, it looks ok to me.

Tomi


>
>  configure                |  3 +++
>  test/README              | 11 +++++++++++
>  test/test-lib-FREEBSD.sh |  9 +++++++++
>  test/test-lib-common.sh  |  5 +++++
>  4 files changed, 28 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 test/test-lib-FREEBSD.sh
>
> diff --git a/configure b/configure
> index fa77eb8f..eb452a12 100755
> --- a/configure
> +++ b/configure
> @@ -1186,6 +1186,9 @@ NOTMUCH_PYTHON=${python}
>  # Are the ruby development files (and ruby) available? If not skip
>  # building/testing ruby bindings.
>  NOTMUCH_HAVE_RUBY_DEV=${have_ruby_dev}
> +
> +# Platform we are run on
> +PLATFORM=${platform}
>  EOF
>  
>  # Finally, after everything configured, inform the user how to continue.
> diff --git a/test/README b/test/README
> index 104a120e..ae22d6e0 100644
> --- a/test/README
> +++ b/test/README
> @@ -33,6 +33,17 @@ chosen directory to your PATH before running the tests.
>  
>  e.g. env PATH=/opt/gnu/bin:$PATH make test
>  
> +For FreeBSD you need to install latest gdb from ports or packages and
> +provide path to it in TEST_GDB environment variable before executing
> +the tests, native FreeBSD gdb does not not work.  If you install
> +coreutils, which provides GNU versions of basic utils like 'date' and
> +'base64' on FreeBSD, the test suite will use these instead of the
> +native ones. This provides robustness against portability issues with
> +these system tools. Most often the tests are written, reviewed and
> +tested on Linux system so such portability issues arise from time to
> +time.
> +
> +
>  Running Tests
>  -------------
>  The easiest way to run tests is to say "make test", (or simply run the
> diff --git a/test/test-lib-FREEBSD.sh b/test/test-lib-FREEBSD.sh
> new file mode 100644
> index 00000000..d1840b56
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/test/test-lib-FREEBSD.sh
> @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
> +# If present, use GNU Coreutils instead of a native BSD utils
> +if command -v gdate >/dev/null
> +   then
> +       date () { gdate "$@"; }
> +       base64 () { gbase64 "$@"; }
> +       wc () { gwc "$@"; }
> +       sed () { gsed "$@"; }
> +       sha256sum () { gsha256sum "$@"; }
> +   fi
> diff --git a/test/test-lib-common.sh b/test/test-lib-common.sh
> index a96cfbeb..ef409171 100644
> --- a/test/test-lib-common.sh
> +++ b/test/test-lib-common.sh
> @@ -66,6 +66,11 @@ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>  # configure output
>  . $notmuch_path/sh.config || exit 1
>  
> +# load OS specifics
> +if [ -e ./test-lib-$PLATFORM.sh ]; then
> +	. ./test-lib-$PLATFORM.sh || exit 1
> +fi
> +
>  if test -n "$valgrind"
>  then
>  	make_symlink () {
> -- 
> 2.11.0
>
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