Pjotr Prins <pjotr.publi...@thebird.nl> writes:
> I raised issue https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/issues/5043
>
> Jose Valim, the author of Elixir, responded with:
>
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>
> I would love to include patches that generally make Mix or Elixir work
> better but those seem like they would be putting a maintenance burden
> on us, specially because we don't really know what is available on GNU
> Guix and what is not. We would be guessing, specially when some of
> those outcomes is exactly what we are testing (like handling of the
> HOME environment variable).
>
> Can't we rather try figure out if we can set a reliable PATH for
> running those tests suites so we can use dialyzer and git as usual?
>
> ---
>
> git and some other tools can be invoked from one place and patched. I
> can help fix that.
>
> My question: in the build environment, what would be a good stub for
> $HOME? Can we use something for $TMPDIR?
It is okay to set the HOME environment variable. A couple of packages
that need to write to $HOME for tests do this in a build phase.
Here’s a snippet from the “asymptote” package:
(add-before 'check 'set-HOME
;; Some tests require write access to $HOME, otherwise leading to
;; "failed to create directory /homeless-shelter/.asy" error.
(lambda _
(setenv "HOME" "/tmp")
#t))
Does this help or am I misunderstanding?
~~ Ricardo
