Fix running unit tests from outside of the build directory (fixes bug #2051)

Currently the unit tests test_util_spawn_background_* assume that they
are run from the Tor build directory. This is not the case when running
make distcheck, so the test will fail. This problem is fixed by autoconf
setting BUILDDIR to be the root of the Tor build directory, and this
preprocessor variable being used to specify the absolute path to
test-child. Also, in test-child, do not print out argv[0] because this will
no longer be predictable. Found by Sebastian Hahn.

3 files changed, 11 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index ae5ed207ea..dddc4b8c6b 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -931,6 +931,13 @@ if test "x$exec_prefix" = "xNONE"; then
   exec_prefix=$prefix
 fi
 
+if test "x$BUILDDIR" = "x"; then
+  BUILDDIR=`pwd`
+fi
+AC_SUBST(BUILDDIR)
+AH_TEMPLATE([BUILDDIR],[tor's build directory])
+AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(BUILDDIR,"$BUILDDIR")
+
 if test "x$CONFDIR" = "x"; then
   CONFDIR=`eval echo $sysconfdir/tor`
 fi
diff --git a/src/test/test-child.c b/src/test/test-child.c
index 100e8c0f32..ca52750c2f 100644
--- a/src/test/test-child.c
+++ b/src/test/test-child.c
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ main(int argc, char **argv)
 
   fprintf(stdout, "OUT\n");
   fprintf(stderr, "ERR\n");
-  for (i = 0; i < argc; i++)
+  for (i = 1; i < argc; i++)
     fprintf(stdout, "%s\n", argv[i]);
   fprintf(stdout, "DONE\n");
 
diff --git a/src/test/test_util.c b/src/test/test_util.c
index e33a6df88f..c4428f5ea9 100644
--- a/src/test/test_util.c
+++ b/src/test/test_util.c
@@ -1393,8 +1393,8 @@ run_util_spawn_background(const char *argv[], const char *expected_out,
 static void
 test_util_spawn_background_ok(void *ptr)
 {
-  const char *argv[] = {"src/test/test-child", "--test", NULL};
-  const char *expected_out = "OUT\nsrc/test/test-child\n--test\nDONE\n";
+  const char *argv[] = {BUILDDIR "/src/test/test-child", "--test", NULL};
+  const char *expected_out = "OUT\n--test\nDONE\n";
   const char *expected_err = "ERR\n";
 
   (void)ptr;
@@ -1406,7 +1406,7 @@ test_util_spawn_background_ok(void *ptr)
 static void
 test_util_spawn_background_fail(void *ptr)
 {
-  const char *argv[] = {"src/test/no-such-file", "--test", NULL};
+  const char *argv[] = {BUILDDIR "/src/test/no-such-file", "--test", NULL};
   const char *expected_out = "ERR: Failed to spawn background process "
                              "- code          9/2\n";
   const char *expected_err = "";