From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Cyril Hrubis Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2017 11:37:58 +0100 Subject: [LTP] Building LTP despite failures In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20170118103758.GB29948@rei.lan> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ltp@lists.linux.it Hi! > We use LTP regularly to check the health of ARC Linux. One the pain points have > been out of tree patches to LTP to avoid building lot of stuff which are either > not provided by C library (say uClibc) or not configured in uClibc etc. The obvious answer is here are: * If there is a functionality not provided by you C library you should write a configure check like we do for many testcases already which is something that could most likely be then accepted upstream * There is also some added support for skipping test compilation under UCLIBC, see testcases/kernel/syscalls/Makefile that skips profil directory if UCLIBC has been defined for build. We may add more if there are features not provided by the uClibc library. -- Cyril Hrubis chrubis@suse.cz