Re: [hatari-devel] Gentoo bug reports (was: Preparing release 2.3)

[Eero Tamminen <oak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On 10/16/20 9:20 AM, Thomas Huth wrote:
> Am Fri, 16 Oct 2020 00:36:40 +0300
> schrieb Eero Tamminen <oak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > Gentoo bug tracker has one bug about Hatari Clang/LLVM build failing
> > with Hatari "make test" config file test having "FAILED" status:
> > *
> > https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=games-emulation%2Fhatari
> > * https://739146.bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=656960
[...]> I wonder how that could have happened? tests/configfile.sh sets the
> HOME environment variable to a temporary directory, so there really
> should not be any etos512k.img in the config file here!
>
> ... unless they use a global /etc/hatari.cfg file on Gentoo that uses
> this path with the "..". That's unfortunate, of course ... I think we
> should somehow skip the global config file loading in case we are
> running in test mode... I've pushed a quick fix, so this problem should
> hopefully be gone now, too.

Thanks, TOS tester can use that too.

But maybe Hatari should output something in this
case, because user might have set HATARI_TEST environment himself for 
some other reason, and
wonder why things don't work properly?


> > https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/games-emulation/hatari/files
> >
> > [1] Joystick patch is already merged by Thomas, and I think tos.img
> > thing to be due to Gentoo packaging EmuTOS separately:
> > https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/games-emulation/emutos
> >
> > => Thomas, could you add item about the joystick change to release
> > notes, with links to above distro bugs it fixes?
>
> That joystick patch has been submitted via github, I certainly did not
> pick it from Gentoo, so I don't see the need to reference Gentoo in our
> docs here.

Well, at least the Hatari improvement itself should be listed in our 
release notes. :-)


	- Eero