Install fwts globally in the snap instead of in /usr (bugfix) #1891
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This is to avoid having to do weird hacks with the PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH to make both the lib and the bin accessible
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Install fwts globally in the snap instead of in /usr This is to avoid having to do weird hacks with the PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH to make both the lib and the bin accessible
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Install fwts globally in the snap instead of in /usr This is to avoid having to do weird hacks with the PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH to make both the lib and the bin accessible
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Description
The upgrade of fwts broke the snap in a few situations because by default the autotools recipe installs fwts and its libray in /usr and in the snap /usr/lib/* is not always in LD_LIBRARY_PATH. This makes Checkbox canary fail!
It is unclear to me how it works on core16 right now, but better safe than sorry, I'm moving all installtion to be global, as I see no downside to it.
See: https://certification.canonical.com/hardware/202302-31257/submission/425313/test/58147/result/48590487/
Resolved issues
Fixes: CHECKBOX-1884
Documentation
Documented why this is actually needed, as I'm pretty sure it was there on some platforms but it wasn't documented
Tests
Built and tested the failing test on core24 and it now works as expected.
Building here: https://github.com/canonical/checkbox/actions/runs/14709968840
And here: https://github.com/canonical/checkbox/actions/runs/14709966174
To be sure I didnt bork the builds