Re: filenotify-tests.el failing inside Docker debian:stretch

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Wed, 02 Jan 2019 09:31:37 +0100 Michael Albinus <address@hidden> wrote: 

MA> I would like to instrument the tests. In order to not annoy everybody,
MA> it would be great if there would be an indication, that a test runs on
MA> emba.gnu.org. Would it be possible to set an environment variable there,
MA> say $EMACS_EMBA_CI? Then I could wrap my instrumentation code inside

MA> (when (getenv "EMACS_EMABA_CI")
MA>   ...)

MA> This is similar to the environment of hydra.nixos.org, where I could
MA> test for $EMACS_HYDRA_CI.

Of course, yes. This is simply added under `stage: test` in .gitlab-ci.yml:

  variables:
    IN_CI: 1

I would just make a branch with the test fix that also changes
.gitlab-ci.yml, and that should pass.

But if this is a Docker issue, should we disable these tests in Docker
for everyone?

Ted