Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/5] add valgrind support in test scripts

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:14:52 -0700

Johannes Schindelin <[email-masked]> writes:

> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Jeff King wrote:
>
>> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
>> index d6f3695..68f0172 100644
>> --- a/Makefile
>> +++ b/Makefile
>> @@ -1343,7 +1345,12 @@ all:: $(TEST_PROGRAMS)
>>  
>>  export NO_SVN_TESTS
>>  
>> -test: all
>> +valgrind-setup: $(patsubst %.sh,%,$(VALGRIND_SH))
>> +	rm -rf t/valgrind/bin
>> +	mkdir t/valgrind/bin
>> +	for i in git $(PROGRAMS); do cp test-valgrind t/valgrind/bin/$$i; done
>
> I wonder if it would not be better to scrap the t/valgrind/ directory and 
> regenerate it everytime you run a test manually; I'd use "ln" instead of 
> "cp", and also parse command-list.txt to catch really all of them (even if 
> a dashed form is used for a builtin by mistake).

Going one step further, I wonder if this approach can also be used to
catch such a mistake.  Install a dashed form that records the fact that it
was called when it shouldn't, and by whom.