Recently, bug#41647 was reported and I have found that it is caused by
(1) Automake writing a relative name for srcdir into site.exp if
configure is invoked using a relative name, (2) overriding this with a
command-line option specifying an absolute path in the "check" recipe
because (3) Automake invokes runtest in the "testsuite" directory but
(4) Automake does not adjust the relative srcdir value to account for
this, (5) site.exp overrides the command line from the time it is loaded
until the command line is parsed for the second time, and (6) during the
window where the command line options are overridden DejaGnu attempts to
load the tool init file.
Obviously, this means that site.exp overriding command line options
needs to be fixed and that window needs to be closed. I am unsure if
there are any uses for this "misfeature" and therefore how aggressively
the command line parameters should be reapplied after loading the local
init file. Should only srcdir be restored (which should be enough to
fix bug#41647)? Should everything set as a result of that parse be
stored away and restored after loading site.exp? Should only the
options that will be reset at the second parse be restored? Something else?
-- Jacob
- Ensuring that site.exp no longer overrides command line op... Jacob Bachmeyer
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