Re: Environment checks prior to regression tests?

On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 6:16 AM, Kohei Kaigai <Kohei(dot)Kaigai(at)emea(dot)nec(dot)com> wrote:
> How about an idea that allows to launch environment checker (typically shell scripts) prior
> to regression tests?
>
> The following stuffs should be preconfigured to run sepgsql's regression test.
> - SELinux must be run and configured to enforcing mode.
> - The sepgsql-regtest policy module must be loaded.
> - The boolean of sepgsql_regression_test_mode must be turned on.
> - The psql command should be labeled as 'bin_t'
>
> If checkinstall optionally allows to launch an environment checker on regression test,
> we may be possible to suggest users to fix up their configuration. It seems to me quite
> helpful.
>
> For example, one idea is to inject a dummy variable (mostly, initialized to empty) as
> dependency of installcheck, being available to overwrite in Makefile of contrib, as follows:
>
>  # against installed postmaster
>  installcheck: submake $(REGRESS_PRE)
>          $(pg_regress_installcheck) $(REGRESS_OPTS) $(REGRESS)

Seems reasonable.

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