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Re: Don't require test wrappers to preserve environment variables, use more consistent environment
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at linux-m68k dot org>
- To: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2014 17:37:20 +0200
- Subject: Re: Don't require test wrappers to preserve environment variables, use more consistent environment
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"Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@codesourcery.com> writes:
> On Sat, 14 Jun 2014, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>
>> This breaks backward compatibility.
>
> Yes, that's my understanding of what was requested in
> <https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2014-05/msg00715.html>: "a simple
> rule that no magic environment bits from the build host implicitly affect
> the test host".
TIMEOUTFACTOR is not magic.
Andreas.
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