In developer builds, warn the user if they are building the unit tests but don't have net_null enabled, since a number of suites and test cases within suites depend on that to create dummy ethdev devices for testing.
Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <[email protected]> --- app/test/meson.build | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/app/test/meson.build b/app/test/meson.build index 31c966d97e..5dde50b181 100644 --- a/app/test/meson.build +++ b/app/test/meson.build @@ -218,6 +218,12 @@ source_file_ext_deps = { 'test_pcapng.c': ['pcap'], } +# the NULL ethdev is used by a number of tests, in some cases as an optional dependency. +# for developer builds, warn user if its missing and we are building the tests. +if not dpdk_conf.has('RTE_NET_NULL') and developer_mode + warning('For unit testing, the net/null PMD should be enabled in the build to enable tests that depend on it.') +endif + def_lib = get_option('default_library') foreach f, f_deps : source_file_deps has_deps = true -- 2.51.0
