The "vala + pkg-config" doesn't interact well with cross-compilation:
<https://mail.gnome.org/archives/vala-list/2012-September/msg00094.html>
That is causing annoying failures in our testsuite when it's run in
cross-compilation mode. It's not worth trying too be overly smart and
work around these problems; just skip the affected tests instead.
* t/ax/am-test-lib.sh (require_tool): A new requirement 'valac', telling
that the test needs to compile Vala-generated C files. In particular,
this causes the test to be skipped when using a cross-compiler.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattar...@gmail.com>
---
t/ax/am-test-lib.sh | 13 +++++++++++++
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
diff --git a/t/ax/am-test-lib.sh b/t/ax/am-test-lib.sh
index 8508197..e14f96f 100644
--- a/t/ax/am-test-lib.sh
+++ b/t/ax/am-test-lib.sh
@@ -765,6 +765,19 @@ require_tool ()
echo "$me: running bison --version"
bison --version || skip_all_ "required program 'bison' not available"
;;
+ valac)
+ echo "$me: running valac --version"
+ if ! valac --version; then
+ skip_all_ "required program 'valac' not available"
+ elif cross_compiling; then
+ skip_all_ "cross-compiling valac-generated C files is brittle"
+ fi
+ # TODO: We also know we need GNU make, the C compiler, and pkg-config
+ # here, but there is no easy way to express this with the current
+ # code organization. We should improve the situation, sooner or
+ # later. At which point the tests requiring 'valac' can drop the
+ # explicit requirements for those tools.
+ ;;
*)
# Generic case: the tool must support --version.
echo "$me: running $1 --version"
--
1.8.3.rc2
