On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 12:17:54PM -0700, Aaron Rosen wrote: > On Sun, Jul 3, 2016 at 12:04 PM, Ben Pfaff <b...@ovn.org> wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 02:27:19PM -0700, Aaron Rosen wrote: > > > This patch exposes the c function expr_parse_string() to be called via > > > python. The motivation for this is so that clients interfacing with > > > ovn can call this method in order to validate the data they are writting > > > to ovn. > > > > > > Previously, there were several bugs in the neutron/ovn integration > > > that went unnoticed due to the client writing invalid data. This should > > > hopefully help catch errors like this earlier as it can now be detected > > on > > > the client side and an error can be raised.
> > I don't yet understand how to use this, though. When I run a normal > > "make check" I get failures like this: > > > > # -*- compilation -*- > > 2132. test-ovn-utils.at:12: testing test-ovn-utils - Python2 ... > > ../../tests/test-ovn-utils.at:12: $PYTHON $srcdir/test-ovn-utils.py > > stderr: > > Traceback (most recent call last): > > File "../../../../tests/test-ovn-utils.py", line 17, in <module> > > from ovs import ovn_utils > > ImportError: cannot import name ovn_utils > > stdout: > > ../../tests/test-ovn-utils.at:12: exit code was 1, expected 0 > > 2132. test-ovn-utils.at:12: 2132. test-ovn-utils - Python2 ( > > test-ovn-utils.at:12): FAILED (test-ovn-utils.at:12) > > > > Is some extra step required? > > > Looks like you need to run: > > sudo python setup.py install > and > sudo python3 setup.py install (if you want the python3 tests to run). > > inside of ovs/python first. > > Is there a good place were we could add a hook to make that occur? I think > the other issue that we are facing before that is in order to build these C > extensions it currently is relying on the openvswitch-dev package being > installed on the system rather than able to use it from the current source > tree: https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs/blob/master/python/setup.py#L80 These changes are going to break the OVS build process, then. Building and testing OVS doesn't currently require root. It sounds like a step backwards to start requiring it. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
