[Fedora-packaging] proposed "should" requirement: clean "make check" run w/valgrind

[Jesse Keating]

On Friday 03 November 2006 15:22, Jim Meyering wrote:
> It is not onerous to require this, because it is so easy to automate.
> In addition to running tests via "make check", each package can also
> run its tests via e.g.,
>
>   env "PATH=/some/new/temp/dir:$PATH" make check 3> log
>
> where the temporary directory, /some/new/temp/dir, contains one or
> more tiny wrapper scripts, each arranging to run a tested application
> via valgrind.  Here's one named "rm" that I've used in testing that
> program for the GNU coreutils:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> export PATH=/cu/src:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin
> exec /usr/bin/valgrind -v --suppressions=/tmp/cu-vg --log-fd=3 \
>   --leak-check=full --track-fds=yes --num-callers=15 -- rm "$@"

Is there any way to make this easier?  A wrapper around everything perhaps?  
Something that could be done in mock?

-- 
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora
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