[PATCH] test: allow user to choose which gdb to run tests with

[Mikhail]

On 17:56 08-Jan 2017 David Bremner wrote:
> Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila at iki.fi> writes:
> 
> > The variable used for selecting gdb is TEST_GDB, consistent with
> > TEST_CC and TEST_EMACS{,CLIENT}.
> 
> pushed this patch to master.
> 

Hello, updated FreeBSD tests patch in the attachment.
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From: Mikhail <mp39590 at gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2016 12:19:39 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] tests: add compatibility layer

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.
---
 configure                | 3 +++
 test/README              | 6 ++++++
 test/test-lib-FREEBSD.sh | 7 +++++++
 test/test-lib-common.sh  | 5 +++++
 4 files changed, 21 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..354a32f9 100644
--- a/test/README
+++ b/test/README
@@ -33,6 +33,12 @@ chosen directory to your PATH before running the tests.
 
 e.g. env PATH=/opt/gnu/bin:$PATH make test
 
+For FreeBSD you will need to install coreutils, which provides GNU
+versions of basic utils like 'date' or 'wc'. Also you will need to
+install latest gdb from ports or packages and provide path to it in
+TEST_GDB variable before executing the tests, native FreeBSD gdb will
+not work.
+
 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..09242362
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/test-lib-FREEBSD.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+# Use GNU Coreutils instead of a native BSD utils
+
+date () { gdate "$@"; }
+base64 () { gbase64 "$@"; }
+wc () { gwc "$@"; }
+sed () { gsed "$@"; }
+sha256sum () { gsha256sum "$@"; }
diff --git a/test/test-lib-common.sh b/test/test-lib-common.sh
index 03ef1d2d..1c8d7f6e 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
+fi
+
 if test -n "$valgrind"
 then
 	make_symlink () {
-- 
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