test-lib: Infrastructure to test and check for prerequisites
authorJohannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Sun, 1 Mar 2009 20:04:46 +0000 (21:04 +0100)
committerJohannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Sat, 21 Mar 2009 20:09:27 +0000 (21:09 +0100)
Some tests can be run only if a particular prerequisite is available. For
example, some tests require that an UTF-8 locale is available. Here we
introduce functions that are used in this way:

1. Insert code that checks whether the prerequisite is available. If it is,
call test_set_prereq with an arbitrary tag name that subsequently can be
used to check for the prerequisite:

case $LANG in
*.utf-8)
test_set_prereq UTF8
;;
esac

2. In the calls to test_expect_success pass the tag name:

test_expect_success UTF8 '...description...' '...tests...'

3. There is an auxiliary predicate that can be used anywhere to test for
a prerequisite explicitly:

if test_have_prereq UTF8
then
...code to be skipped if prerequisite is not available...
fi

Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
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