On Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 10:57:38AM +0100, Kai Pastor, DG0YT wrote: > Am 11.11.2017 um 17:18 schrieb Adrian Bunk: > > I found what causes the problem: > > > > The failing tests use the following for finding the path to test files: > > QDir::addSearchPath(prefix, > > QFileInfo(QString::fromUtf8(__FILE__)).dir().absoluteFilePath(prefix)); > > > > In unstable reproducible builds the build path is varied, > > and gcc patched to accept setting __FILE__ to a fixed > > (reproducible) location. > > > > In other words, when Debian will start changing __FILE__ also on the > > buildds this will become a FTBFS also there. > > Hm, I understand the benefit of reproducible builds. But does this really > need to extend to test binaries which do not get packaged? These tests need > to be as much stand-alone as possible and work out of the box in any context > (host OS, target OS). > > I didn't find a recommendation how to solve the issue. I hope a custom macro > is okay.
Based on the discussion in #876901 [1] it is still unclear how this should be resolved in general. Semi-related, why aren't you using QFINDTESTDATA [2]? > Kai > (upstream) cu Adrian [1] https://bugs.debian.org/876901 [2] http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtest.html#QFINDTESTDATA -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed
