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authorMatt Caswell <matt@openssl.org>2020-04-30 16:08:57 +0100
committerMatt Caswell <matt@openssl.org>2020-05-06 11:40:53 +0100
commit6ed34b3eff68b79ce9fb00d84c95c950d8bc7bdd (patch)
tree9b85f6781b18c14fe81f624707088349dc6af1c1 /test/README
parent500a7615173c8ae2362a05e1affd376ab2b41a94 (diff)
Centralise Environment Variables for the tests
The test_includes test was failing if OPENSSL_CONF_INCLUDE happened to be set in the user's environment. To ensure that no tests accidentally use this or other enviroment variables from the user's environment we automatically set them centrally for all tests. Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <tmraz@fedoraproject.org> (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/11691)
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@@ -151,3 +151,7 @@ works fine and can be used in place of:
The former produces a more meaningful message on failure than the latter.
+Note that the test infrastructure automatically sets up all required environment
+variables (such as OPENSSL_MODULES, OPENSSL_CONF etc) for the tests. Individual
+tests may choose to override the default settings as required.
+