Re: [rteval] Fails to work without numactl

[Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>]

On 2021-08-30 16:33:32 [-0400], John Kacur wrote:
> What distro are you running on Sebastian?
Debian but I didn't install it in anyway. I just run make of the git
checkout and this started it if I remember correctly.

> In rpm based distros numactl is a Requires, so that path where it is not 
> available is rarely tested - but that doesn't mean I won't take a patch or 
> try to fix it myself. I did have a quick look at it.

From the checkout there were complains about other libs but nothing
complained about numactl. Thanks.

> kcompile.py compiles an allmodconfig kernel. (not sure this is the best 
> thing to do still, but that's a different topic)
> 
> The requirements for that continues to grow. I have often seen rteval fail
> when requirements for building the kernel aren't installed on a machine.

okay.

> You can usually figure that out by looking at the debug logs in rteval, 
> but another simple thing to do is simply try an allmodconfig kernel 
> compile on your machine and when it fails figure out what 
> software is needed. It wouldn't be a bad thing to have a list of Debian 
> build requirements and Fedora build requirements, etc.

Okay.

> John

Sebastian