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author | Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> | 2018-11-09 00:15:29 +0300 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2018-11-09 05:25:19 +0300 |
commit | 6cdccfce1e0f218d4d26292b85ec18ed96c91be7 (patch) | |
tree | 5d0391233908235dc270e5da9e37bb42c29b2e8c /po | |
parent | d582ea202b626dcc6c3b01e1e11a296d9badd730 (diff) |
i18n: make GETTEXT_POISON a runtime option
Change the GETTEXT_POISON compile-time + runtime GIT_GETTEXT_POISON
test parameter to only be a GIT_TEST_GETTEXT_POISON=<non-empty?>
runtime parameter, to be consistent with other parameters documented
in "Running tests with special setups" in t/README.
When I added GETTEXT_POISON in bb946bba76 ("i18n: add GETTEXT_POISON
to simulate unfriendly translator", 2011-02-22) I was concerned with
ensuring that the _() function would get constant folded if NO_GETTEXT
was defined, and likewise that GETTEXT_POISON would be compiled out
unless it was defined.
But as the benchmark in my [1] shows doing a one-off runtime
getenv("GIT_TEST_[...]") is trivial, and since GETTEXT_POISON was
originally added the GIT_TEST_* env variables have become the common
idiom for turning on special test setups.
So change GETTEXT_POISON to work the same way. Now the
GETTEXT_POISON=YesPlease compile-time option is gone, and running the
tests with GIT_TEST_GETTEXT_POISON=[YesPlease|] can be toggled on/off
without recompiling.
This allows for conditionally amending tests to test with/without
poison, similar to what 859fdc0c3c ("commit-graph: define
GIT_TEST_COMMIT_GRAPH", 2018-08-29) did for GIT_TEST_COMMIT_GRAPH. Do
some of that, now we e.g. always run the t0205-gettext-poison.sh test.
I did enough there to remove the GETTEXT_POISON prerequisite, but its
inverse C_LOCALE_OUTPUT is still around, and surely some tests using
it can be converted to e.g. always set GIT_TEST_GETTEXT_POISON=.
Notes on the implementation:
* We still compile a dedicated GETTEXT_POISON build in Travis
CI. Perhaps this should be revisited and integrated into the
"linux-gcc" build, see ae59a4e44f ("travis: run tests with
GIT_TEST_SPLIT_INDEX", 2018-01-07) for prior art in that area. Then
again maybe not, see [2].
* We now skip a test in t0000-basic.sh under
GIT_TEST_GETTEXT_POISON=YesPlease that wasn't skipped before. This
test relies on C locale output, but due to an edge case in how the
previous implementation of GETTEXT_POISON worked (reading it from
GIT-BUILD-OPTIONS) wasn't enabling poison correctly. Now it does,
and needs to be skipped.
* The getenv() function is not reentrant, so out of paranoia about
code of the form:
printf(_("%s"), getenv("some-env"));
call use_gettext_poison() in our early setup in git_setup_gettext()
so we populate the "poison_requested" variable in a codepath that's
won't suffer from that race condition.
* We error out in the Makefile if you're still saying
GETTEXT_POISON=YesPlease to prompt users to change their
invocation.
* We should not print out poisoned messages during the test
initialization itself to keep it more readable, so the test library
hides the variable if set in $GIT_TEST_GETTEXT_POISON_ORIG during
setup. See [3].
See also [4] for more on the motivation behind this patch, and the
history of the GETTEXT_POISON facility.
1. https://public-inbox.org/git/871s8gd32p.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com/
2. https://public-inbox.org/git/20181102163725.GY30222@szeder.dev/
3. https://public-inbox.org/git/20181022202241.18629-2-szeder.dev@gmail.com/
4. https://public-inbox.org/git/878t2pd6yu.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'po')
-rw-r--r-- | po/README | 13 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 9 deletions
@@ -289,16 +289,11 @@ something in the test suite might still depend on the US English version of the strings, e.g. to grep some error message or other output. -To smoke out issues like these Git can be compiled with gettext poison -support, at the top-level: +To smoke out issues like these, Git tested with a translation mode that +emits gibberish on every call to gettext. To use it run the test suite +with it, e.g.: - make GETTEXT_POISON=YesPlease - -That'll give you a git which emits gibberish on every call to -gettext. It's obviously not meant to be installed, but you should run -the test suite with it: - - cd t && prove -j 9 ./t[0-9]*.sh + cd t && GIT_TEST_GETTEXT_POISON=YesPlease prove -j 9 ./t[0-9]*.sh If tests break with it you should inspect them manually and see if what you're translating is sane, i.e. that you're not translating |