Re: [PATCH] Allow running tests in testenv on a different wget binary

[Tim Rühsen]

On 07.11.19 15:22, Tomas Hozza wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I would like to reuse upstream tests in testenv/ for testing official Fedora 
> build of wget, installed on the system. Currently tests hardcode path to wget 
> binary to ../src/wget. I added option to set WGET_PATH environment variable 
> to path to a wget binary, which is then used when running tests. This is 
> completely optional, and if not specified, tests work as they did before. 
> However if specified e.g. to "/usr/bin/wget", the distribution-specific build 
> of wget is tested instead.

Hi Tomas,

thanks for that ! We just recently discussed about running the test with
wget2. Your patch makes it possible. Just pushed it with an amended
commit message.

BTW, did you consider to use WGET_PATH for the perl tests as well ?

Regards, Tim