The example games failed on the CI runner with "ALSA: Couldn't open audio
device" despite SDL_AUDIODRIVER=dummy sitting right there in their CMake --
because it never reached the process. set_tests_properties parses its
PROPERTIES arguments as name/value pairs, so a semicolon-separated value
list is split and every element after the first is consumed as a bogus
property name: ENVIRONMENT kept only SDL_VIDEODRIVER=dummy, and the
LD_LIBRARY_PATH prepend list kept only its first directory. ctest
--show-only=json-v1 shows the truncation plainly.
Nobody could see it. Video survived because SDL3 falls through its driver
list to dummy on a headless machine with no hint at all; audio survived on
every developer machine because the real device works there; the library
paths survived because RPATH covered them. A runner with no sound card was
the first environment where any of it mattered.
Every list-valued test property now goes through set_property(TEST ...),
which takes real list arguments -- the examples' ENVIRONMENT triplets and
vendored-path modifications, the suites' LD_LIBRARY_PATH prepends, and the
docs harness's driver variables. Verified by property dump (3 environment
entries and all 7 prepends present) and by running the example tests with
ALSA_CONFIG_PATH=/dev/null, which now pass where a real ALSA open would
fail: the dummy driver is finally the one being asked.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Code (Claude Fable 5, claude-fable-5) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01KzBDV2fqgnUAcqCKqKvc71
Andrew Kesterson
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