Re: [gpsd-dev] Configuring GitLab CI (was Upcoming migration to GitLab)

[Greg Troxel]

Hal Murray <address@hidden> writes:

> address@hidden said:
>> I get those, a lot, on systems where do not run dbus.  The test should still
>> pass.  Maybe change that to a warning? 
>
> Why is a test trying to connect to dbus?
>
> There should be a run-time no-dbus switch so the tests can run clean.  Or two 
> lines of code in the test to check the UID?
>
> There is a configure time switch.  If the rest of the dbus test doesn't do 
> anything interesting, you can rebuild with "dbus_export=no".


Really, the test should start up a dbus instance and pass in a
connection to it by reference, and be able to validate that the dbus
stuff works.  No test invocation should ever connect to a live dbus
instance.