Buildd-setup faffing around with __FILE__ breaks my unit tests.

[Ximin Luo]

Sune Vuorela:
> On Sunday, February 10, 2019 3:08:00 AM CET Ximin Luo wrote:
>> Sune Vuorela:
>>> [..]
>>>
>>> My suggestion is to not change the meaning of __FILE__ and instead fix the
>>> programs that uses __FILE__ for something they shouldn't.
>>
>> You should pass this request to the QT test maintainers. This exact issue
>> came up in december 2017 and they were extremely rude and uncooperative
>> about it.
> 
> So what's your suggestion to reference test data in the source folder?
> 
My suggestion is just what you said:

> instead fix the programs that uses __FILE__ for something they shouldn't.

i.e. QT tests shouldn't use __FILE__, they should use something else.

Patching this one macro is easier than patching several hundred packages that use __FILE__ directly for more innocent (less assumptive) purposes that are unaffected by -ffile-prefix-mpa.

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