[m-rev.] diff: $HOME

[Simon Taylor]

On 20-Aug-2002, Zoltan Somogyi <zs at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> Fix a problem with Simon's change to the tests.
> 
> tools/bootcheck:
> 	Set HOME to point to a nonexistent directory, to avoid mdb picking
> 	up an .mdbrc file from $HOME. If it did find and source such a file,
> 	the outputs of the test cases in tests/debugger could have unnecessary
> 	differences from the expected outputs.
> 
> 	(The old runtests script in tests/debugger used to set HOME, but it
> 	isn't used anymore.)

tests/debugger/Mmakefile and tests/debugger/declarative/Mmakefile
define a variable MDB which would be a better place to override
the value of $HOME. The definition of the MDB variable should also
be moved to tests/Mmake.common.

Simon.
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