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 $GIT_TEST_GETTEXT_POISON_ORIG during
setup. See [3].
See also [4] for more on the motivation behind this patch, and the
history of the GETTEXT_POISON facility.
1. https://public-inbox.org/git/871s8gd32p.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com/
2. https://public-inbox.org/git/20181102163725.GY30222@szeder.dev/
3. https://public-inbox.org/git/20181022202241.18629-2-szeder.dev@gmail.com/
4. https://public-inbox.org/git/878t2pd6yu.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
diff --git a/t/test-lib.sh b/t/test-lib.sh
index 897e6fc..edee38a 100644
--- a/t/test-lib.sh
+++ b/t/test-lib.sh
@@ -95,6 +95,16 @@
TZ=UTC
export LANG LC_ALL PAGER TZ
EDITOR=:
+
+# GIT_TEST_GETTEXT_POISON should not influence git commands executed
+# during initialization of test-lib and the test repo. Back it up,
+# unset and then restore after initialization is finished.
+if test -n "$GIT_TEST_GETTEXT_POISON"
+then
+ GIT_TEST_GETTEXT_POISON_ORIG=$GIT_TEST_GETTEXT_POISON
+ unset GIT_TEST_GETTEXT_POISON
+fi
+
# A call to "unset" with no arguments causes at least Solaris 10
# /usr/xpg4/bin/sh and /bin/ksh to bail out. So keep the unsets
# deriving from the command substitution clustered with the other
@@ -1104,13 +1114,15 @@
test -n "$USE_LIBPCRE2" && test_set_prereq LIBPCRE2
test -z "$NO_GETTEXT" && test_set_prereq GETTEXT
-# Can we rely on git's output in the C locale?
-if test -n "$GETTEXT_POISON"
+if test -n "$GIT_TEST_GETTEXT_POISON_ORIG"
then
- GIT_GETTEXT_POISON=YesPlease
- export GIT_GETTEXT_POISON
- test_set_prereq GETTEXT_POISON
-else
+ GIT_TEST_GETTEXT_POISON=$GIT_TEST_GETTEXT_POISON_ORIG
+ unset GIT_TEST_GETTEXT_POISON_ORIG
+fi
+
+# Can we rely on git's output in the C locale?
+if test -z "$GIT_TEST_GETTEXT_POISON"
+then
test_set_prereq C_LOCALE_OUTPUT
fi
