[PATCH] test: Always use paths without symlinks

[Tomi Ollila]

On Tue, Dec 29 2015, Michal Sojka <sojkam1 at fel.cvut.cz> wrote:

> When notmuch sources are at a symlinked path, some tests fail because
> one part of the test uses physical path and another uses logical
> path (with symlinks). For example the following test output is
> produced when the test is started from /home/src/symlink-to-notmuch,
> which is a symlink to /home/src/notmuch.
>
>     FAIL   notmuch-fcc-dirs set to a string
>         --- T310-emacs.26.OUTPUT        2015-12-29 08:54:29.055878637 +0000
>         +++ T310-emacs.26.EXPECTED      2015-12-29 08:54:29.055878637 +0000
>         @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
>          From: Notmuch Test Suite <test_suite at notmuchmail.org>
>          To:
>          Subject:
>         -Fcc: /home/src/notmuch/test/tmp.T310-emacs/mail/sent-string
>         +Fcc: /home/src/symlink-to-notmuch/test/tmp.T310-emacs/mail/sent-string
>          --text follows this line--
>     nil
>
> This commit makes all paths in test scripts physical. With it, all
> tests pass even when run from a symlinked directory.

Looks good, is portable (bash builtin) and seems also fix cases I thought
might have been a problem instead.

Tomi


> ---
>  test/test-lib-common.sh | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/test/test-lib-common.sh b/test/test-lib-common.sh
> index 5eb618c..4e17b78 100644
> --- a/test/test-lib-common.sh
> +++ b/test/test-lib-common.sh
> @@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ restore_database () {
>  
>  # Test the binaries we have just built.  The tests are kept in
>  # test/ subdirectory and are run in 'trash directory' subdirectory.
> -TEST_DIRECTORY=$(pwd)
> +TEST_DIRECTORY=$(pwd -P)
>  notmuch_path=`find_notmuch_path "$TEST_DIRECTORY"`
>  
>  # configure output
> -- 
> 2.6.4
>
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