Opened 9 years ago
Closed 9 years ago
#755 closed defect (wontfix)
Test suite completely broken on El Capitan
| Reported by: | Juergen Reuter | Owned by: | kilian |
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| Priority: | P0 | Milestone: | v2.2.8 |
| Component: | core | Version: | 2.2.7 |
| Severity: | blocker | Keywords: | |
| Cc: |
Description
On Mac OS X Darwin 10.11 (El Capitan) both the unit and functional test suite do not work before installation of WHIZARD. The reason is that the shared libraries on which the unit tests or the process libraries of the functional tests depend cannot be loaded by using DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH as the System Integrity Protocol (SIP) of El Capitan doesn't allow passing such variables to child processes. One solution (besides revising the whole test suite) would be to demand make install as a hook when performing make check. Opinions?
Change History (8)
comment:1 Changed 9 years ago by
comment:2 Changed 9 years ago by
As David Strubbe (MIT) suggested (actually he seems to be writing and maintaining some very interesting software packages on highly parallel methods for density functional methods) there is a solution for Macports, so my fear that El Capitan would break the Macports functionality of WHIZARD is gone. I guess there is no way to put the testsuite back on functional with SIP turned on (unless using an installhook to be executed before make check which would contradict all rules for autotools). I added notes in the manual, in the Wiki Page and in the 'BUGS' file. If there are no objections I'm tempted to close this ticket as 'won't fix' with a heavy heart. Comments?
comment:4 Changed 9 years ago by
I'd go pragmatic and proceed as described.
After all, we (the devs) are responsible for testing. The testsuite is important to check if a given build environment/OS combination is sane. However, for Mac, the environment should be rather well defined, so it's not so important to have all tests on the user side.
comment:5 Changed 9 years ago by
Well, I have to switch off SIP anyhow as I build the release on my laptop, otherwise making releases would be hilariously constrained in the future. So Macports-User are safe with the changes bei Daniel Stubbe and people installing it themselves are warned in the manual and the Wiki etc. So, closing as won't fix?
comment:8 Changed 9 years ago by
| Resolution: | → wontfix |
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| Status: | new → closed |
As discussed with WK, procedure would be that developers have to switch off SIP, and the user is told to do make installcheck instead of make check. Or we use the hook as above.