bug#10866: 1.11a OSX with llvm - 3 fails, 47 skips, 3 errors, out of 2856 tests

[Stefano Lattarini]

Thanks for getting back to me so quickly.

On 03/10/2012 08:16 AM, P. Martin wrote:
> 
> On Mar 9, 2012, Stefano Lattarini <address@hidden> wrote: 
>> Do you happen to know how one can
>> reliably determine whether the build system is being run by HomeBrew,
> 
> 
> Forgot to answer your question.  Yes, when Homebrew spawns
> an install, it stages the files in the user's temp dir, which can change,
> but below that you'll always see homebrew-automake.  A pwd e.g.
> 
>   /private/tmp/homebrew-automake-HEAD-Zk5j
>   /private/tmp/homebrew-automake-1.11.3-5hld/automake-1.11.3
>   /some/path/homebrew-automake-1.11.3-E4t5/automake-1.11.3
> 
> It's also the case that this env var will be defined with some path:
> 
>   HOMEBREW_BREW_FILE=/usr/local/bin/brew
> 
> Thanks again.
>
>
I've finally found myself the list of variables expected to be set by
homebrew; see the entry "SHELL SCRIPTS" at:

 <https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/External-Commands>

So I've prepared the attached patch; can you confirm it truly solves
the homebrew issue?

Thanks,
  Stefano

0001-tests-avoid-spurious-failure-under-homebrew.patch
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