Re: [PATCH] test: remove --root option and fix TMP_DIRECTORY cleanup

[David Bremner <david@tethera.net>]

Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org> writes:

> The primary motivation here is to fix TMP_DIRECTORY cleanup prior to
> running each test when the current working directory is not the test
> subdirectory. Tests with failures would leave their TMP_DIRECTORY
> directory behind for debugging, and repeated out-of-tree test runs
> would have old temp directories. (This lead to e.g. T310-emacs.sh
> hanging because emacs would prompt for overwriting files.)
>
> We remove the likely anyway defunct --root test option while at it,
> just to be on the safe side when doing 'rm -rf' on the TMP_DIRECTORY.

This seems to fix the problem I reported, however applying

     id:cd03efa9c93ee54f7e7f7e166079062984ddd658.1506370901.git.jani@nikula.org

on top breaks

      ./devel/check-out-of-tree-build.sh test

I get lots of errors along the lines of

      Error opening database at
      /tmp/tmp.GD3HPpejbL/test/tmp.T350-crypto/mail/.notmuch: No such
      file or directory

So this patch seems to unbreak in-tree builds (and out of tree builds
where we copy the whole test hierarchy), and is probably worth applying
as is, but I wanted to give you a chance to respond before I proceed.

d