On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 09:30:52AM -0800, Darren Hart wrote: > 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?
Well, in general autotools are a good idea when it comes to cross compilation, because it Just Works (TM). We do most of our testing activities on embedded ARM and PowerPC boxes, so it is important for us that it works. In this case, since the rest of the LTP code isn't autotool based and indeed *does* cross compile in the mean time, I wouldn't be too religious with it and wouldn't mind if you make the build system closer to the rest. If possible, I'd like to test your proposal in our test scenarios. Robert -- Dipl.-Ing. Robert Schwebel | http://www.pengutronix.de Pengutronix - Linux Solutions for Science and Industry Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 Hannoversche Str. 2, 31134 Hildesheim, Germany Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-9 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
