Bug 83986

Summary:	Ensure that 'make check' does not use any Weston components outside the build
Product:	Wayland	Reporter:	Pekka Paalanen <ppaalanen>
Component:	weston	Assignee:	Wayland bug list <wayland-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED MOVED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
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Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	83980

Description Pekka Paalanen 2014-09-17 12:22:26 UTC

'make check' should not require 'make install' first.

Add some sort of tests, that ensure all files are loaded from the build directory, and nothing is accidentally loaded from the system, including: weston.ini, weston plugins, backends, helper programs (weston-desktop-shell, weston-keyboard, etc.).

We want to notice if anything gets used from the system, because that compromises the test results.

There could still be some cases where some components might be picked up from the system. All those need to be fixed.

Maybe we should have a some sort of switch to Weston to put it into test mode, which makes it skip all normal search paths?

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/wayland/weston/commit/?id=c7210434d45cff0135e42bd3047988e1274d49dd
was a good step in that direction. Is it enough? Are there any security implications?

Comment 1 GitLab Migration User 2018-06-08 23:53:04 UTC

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