On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 02:40:04AM -0200, Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues wrote:
>On Fri 18 Nov 2011 12:19:23 AM BRST, Richard Yang wrote:
>>Lucas
>>
>>I am using the samples/control.kbuild_and_tests test case and met a
>>problem.
>>
>>When I change the control file like this,
>>---------------------------------------------------
>>diff --git a/client/samples/control.kbuild_and_tests
>>b/client/samples/control.kbuild_and_tests
>>index 59dd757..d842dc9 100644
>>--- a/client/samples/control.kbuild_and_tests
>>+++ b/client/samples/control.kbuild_and_tests
>>@@ -30,7 +30,8 @@ def step_init():
>> # If you have a local/different kernel.org mirror, you can set it
>> # by
>> # uncommenting the below and set the URL properly.
>> #job.config_set('local_mirror', 'http://foo/bar')
>> - testkernel = job.kernel('2.6.35')
>> +# testkernel = job.kernel('2.6.35')
>> + testkernel = job.kernel('../../linux-2.6/')
>> # If you want to see kernel expansion in action,
>> # comment the above and
>> # uncomment the below. Keep in mind that after
>> # some months, it's expected
>> # that some of the patches might not
>> # exist, so you might want to edit
>>
>>So I inform the autotest to use a local copy of kernel source by giving
>>the relative path. Thie test will fail.
>>
>>I look at the code and find the cause is autotest create a symbol link
>>at tmp/build which point to a wrong place.
>>
>>ls tmp/build/ -l
>>total 4
>>lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2011-11-18 09:50 linux -> ../../linux-2.6
>>drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2011-11-18 09:50 src
>>
>>It should be:
>>ls tmp/build/ -l
>>total 4
>>lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2011-11-18 09:50 linux -> ../../../../linux-2.6
>>drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2011-11-18 09:50 src
>>
>>I change the code like this.
>>
>>diff --git a/client/bin/kernel.py b/client/bin/kernel.py
>>index cb0ef99..3c8d7cd 100644
>>--- a/client/bin/kernel.py
>>+++ b/client/bin/kernel.py
>>@@ -320,6 +320,7 @@ class kernel(BootableKernel):
>> print 'Symlinking existing kernel source'
>> if os.path.islink(self.build_dir):
>> os.remove(self.build_dir)
>>+ base_tree = os.path.abspath(base_tree)
>> os.symlink(base_tree, self.build_dir)
>>
>> # otherwise, extract tarball
>>
>
>I'd rather provide an absolute path on your control file...
Sure, ok. :)
--
Richard Yang
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