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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Ltp-list mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltp-list
