On Thursday 28 February 2008 00:35:47 Sebastien Dugue wrote:
>   Hi,
>
>   here is a serie of patches to replace the autotools based build system
> with a much lighter Makefiles based only build.
>
>   The rationale here is that autoconf & co may have their usefulness when
> portability is the goal, but in the ltp case there's no such thing as
> portability.
>
>   Furthermore, in the realtime tests case, the autotools are only used to
> check for the availability of 2 features of the running system:
>
>       - support for PI mutexes
>       - support for robust mutexes

The original motivation to include these changes came from Robert Schwebel in 
the following thread on linux-rt-users:

Re: [patch 00/11] Autotool support for IBM RT Cases

Robert had interest in cross-compiling to other archs.  Robert, with the tests 
now in LTP, do you have any comments you'd like to add?

--
Darren


>
> to conditionally build some tests. This can be accomplished in a much
> simpler way without the need for pulling in the whole autotools
> sledgehammer.
>
>   The patch serie is organized as follows:
>
>       - patch 1 adds two little scripts to detect the availability of PI
>         and robust mutexes.
>
>       - patch 2 adds the Makefiles that replace the previous build
>         system.
>
>       - patch 3 removes all the autotools stuff and updates
>         testscripts/test_realtime.sh for the new build system.
>
>
>   Sebastien.



-- 
Darren Hart
IBM Linux Technology Center
Real-Time Linux Team

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