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    travis-ci: set GIT_TEST_HTTPD in 'ci/lib-travisci.sh' · a1157b76
    Gábor Szeder authored and Junio C Hamano's avatar Junio C Hamano committed
    Commit 657343a6
    
     (travis-ci: move Travis CI code into dedicated
    scripts, 2017-09-10) converted '.travis.yml's default 'before_install'
    scriptlet to the 'ci/install-dependencies.sh' script, and while doing
    so moved setting GIT_TEST_HTTPD=YesPlease for the 64-bit GCC and Clang
    Linux build jobs to that script.  This is wrong for two reasons:
    
     - The purpose of that script is, as its name suggests, to install
       dependencies, not to set any environment variables influencing
       which tests should be run (though, arguably, this was already an
       issue with the original 'before_install' scriptlet).
    
     - Setting the variable has no effect anymore, because that script is
       run in a separate shell process, and the variable won't be visible
       in any of the other scripts, notably in 'ci/run-tests.sh'
       responsible for, well, running the tests.
    
    Luckily, this didn't have a negative effect on our Travis CI build
    jobs, because GIT_TEST_HTTPD is a tri-state variable defaulting to
    "auto" and a functioning web server was installed in those Linux build
    jobs, so the httpd tests were run anyway.
    
    Apparently the httpd tests run just fine without GIT_TEST_HTTPD being
    set, therefore we could simply remove this environment variable.
    However, if a bug were to creep in to change the Travis CI build
    environment to run the tests as root or to not install Apache, then
    the httpd tests would be skipped and the build job would still
    succeed.  We would only notice if someone actually were to look
    through the build job's trace log; but who would look at the trace log
    of a successful build job?!
    
    Since httpd tests are important, we do want to run them and we want to
    be loudly reminded if they can't be run.  Therefore, move setting
    GIT_TEST_HTTPD=YesPlease for the 64-bit GCC and Clang Linux build jobs
    to 'ci/lib-travisci.sh' to ensure that the build job fails when the
    httpd tests can't be run.  (We could set it in 'ci/run-tests.sh' just
    as well, but it's better to keep all environment variables in one
    place in 'ci/lib-travisci.sh'.)
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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