Instead of asking gtester to run ./test-conformance directly we now tell
it to run a list of wrapper scripts. This results in each test being
spawned in a separate process avoiding leakage of state between tests
which has been a big problem with the conformance tests for quite a
while now.
When building out of tree the generated scripts for the unit tests
need to explicitly reference the original src dir to be able to find
test-launcher.sh, like this:
$(top_srcdir)/tests/conform/test-launcher.sh
Also test-launcher.sh now passes -m slow --verbose to gtester. Without
-m slow then the wrappers dont work for some of the timeline tests.
Currently, the conformance test suite creates symbolic links pointing
to a wrapper script that just parses the name used to invoke it and
calls the gtester with the correct path.
Unfortunately, this presents two issues:
- it does not really work on file systems that do not
support symbolic links
- it leaves behind the symbolic links, which cannot
be automatically cleaning by 'make clean'
Both can be solved by creating a small script that invokes the wrapper
one with the test unit path.
The Makefile will use test-conform to extract the unit test paths
and generate a list that will be iterated over to create the
executable name (using the "test-name" convention also used by the
interactive tests, instead of "test_name"); the executable is then
just a simple shell script that invokes the wrapper script passing
the unit test path on the command line. The wrapper script will
use the first argument to work correctly, so it could be simply
executed like:
./test-wrapper.sh /path/to/unit_test
Which is another improvement over the current implementation, where
the wrapper script does not work when invoked directly.
