What are differences between real and rpmbuild's environment?

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 10:07:05AM +0100, Michal Hlavinka wrote:
> tried, but there does not seem to be significant difference. Also the %check 
> script I used was the same script rpmbuild creates from the %check section (in 
> /var/tmp/rpm*) and it defines the same environment:
> 
> -------------------------------------------
> #!/bin/sh
> 
>   RPM_SOURCE_DIR="/home/mhlavink/gitf/ksh"
>   RPM_BUILD_DIR="/home/mhlavink/gitf/ksh"
>   RPM_OPT_FLAGS="-O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -
> fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -mtune=generic"
>   RPM_ARCH="x86_64"
>   RPM_OS="linux"
>   export RPM_SOURCE_DIR RPM_BUILD_DIR RPM_OPT_FLAGS RPM_ARCH RPM_OS
>   RPM_DOC_DIR="/usr/share/doc"
>   export RPM_DOC_DIR
>   RPM_PACKAGE_NAME="ksh"
>   RPM_PACKAGE_VERSION="20101026"
>   RPM_PACKAGE_RELEASE="1.fc14"
>   export RPM_PACKAGE_NAME RPM_PACKAGE_VERSION RPM_PACKAGE_RELEASE
>   LANG=C
>   export LANG
>   unset CDPATH DISPLAY ||:
>   RPM_BUILD_ROOT="/home/mhlavink/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/ksh-20101026-1.fc14.x86_64"
>   export RPM_BUILD_ROOT
>   
>   PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/usr/lib64/pkgconfig:/usr/share/pkgconfig"
>   export PKG_CONFIG_PATH
>   
>   set -x
>   umask 022
>   cd "/home/mhlavink/gitf/ksh"
> cd 'ksh-20101026'
> unset DISPLAY
> 
> SHELL=$(ls $(pwd)/arch/*/bin/ksh)
> cp $SHELL ${SHELL}4check
> export SHELL=${SHELL}4check
> cd src/cmd/ksh93/tests/
> ulimit -c unlimited
> if [ ! -e /dev/fd ]
> then
>   echo "ERROR: /dev/fd does not exist, regression tests skipped"
>   exit 0
> fi
> $SHELL ./shtests 2>&1 | tee testresults.log
> killall ksh4check -s SIGKILL
> ...
> -------------------------------------------

Maybe something strange like the size in bytes of the environment
is crossing some limit?

Rich.

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