Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 1/2] iotests: Use absolute paths for executables

[Eric Blake]

On 05/29/2017 10:23 AM, Max Reitz wrote:
> A user may specify a relative path for accessing qemu, qemu-img, etc.
> through environment variables ($QEMU_PROG and friends) or a symlink.
> 
> If a test decides to change its working directory, relative paths will
> cease to work, however. Work around this by making all of the paths to
> programs that should undergo testing absolute. Besides "realpath", we
> also have to use "which" to support programs in $PATH.

'type -p' is more portable than 'which' - especially since our scripts
are bash scripts, and type is a bash builtin while which is not.

> 
> As a side effect, this fixes specifying these programs as symlinks for
> out-of-tree builds: Before, you would have to create two symlinks, one
> in the build and one in the source tree (the first one for common.config
> to find, the second one for the iotest to use). Now it is sufficient to
> create one in the build tree because common.config will resolve it.
> 
> Reported-by: Kevin Wolf <address@hidden>
> Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <address@hidden>
> ---
>  tests/qemu-iotests/common.config | 6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/common.config 
> b/tests/qemu-iotests/common.config
> index d1b45f5..08aac56 100644
> --- a/tests/qemu-iotests/common.config
> +++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/common.config
> @@ -103,6 +103,12 @@ if [ -z "$QEMU_VXHS_PROG" ]; then
>      export QEMU_VXHS_PROG="`set_prog_path qnio_server`"
>  fi
>  
> +export QEMU_PROG=$(realpath "$(which "$QEMU_PROG")")
> +export QEMU_IMG_PROG=$(realpath "$(which "$QEMU_IMG_PROG")")
> +export QEMU_IO_PROG=$(realpath "$(which "$QEMU_IO_PROG")")
> +export QEMU_NBD_PROG=$(realpath "$(which "$QEMU_NBD_PROG")")
> +export QEMU_VXHS_PROG=$(realpath "$(which "$QEMU_VXHS_PROG")")

If you switch all of these to $(realpath -- "$(type -p "$QEMU_...")"),
you can add:

Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>

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Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc.           +1-919-301-3266
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