[PATCH v3] tests: force non-deterministic mode in non-deterministic tests

Jan Beulich jbeulich@suse.com
Mon Mar 11 07:25:16 GMT 2024


On 10.03.2024 15:31, Stephen Kitt wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Feb 2024 10:45:01 +0100, Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> wrote:
>> On 16.01.2024 14:57, Stephen Kitt wrote:
>>> Since ar can be built defaulting to deterministic mode, tests which
>>> expect non-deterministic behaviour need to explicitly set the U flag.
>>>
>>> The non-deterministic member test expects SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH to not be
>>> set; this documents that. Unconditionally unsetting the variable
>>> causes issues in test infrastructure (which expects unsetenv to only
>>> be called on variables which are already set).
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org>  
>>
>> In the absence of any other comments, please feel free to put in.
> 
> I’m not sure whether this was asking me to apply my patch to the binutils
> tree, but I can’t push to the binutils tree myself.

I see; I've committed it on your behalf.

Jan


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