On Mar 24, 2010, at 11:48 PM, Subrata Modak <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 18:46 -0400, Anthony Ton wrote: >> Hello LTP team, >> Will the compilation of LTP test suites be independent of the OS >> kernel libraries? Basically if I compiled the LTP on standard Linux >> OS and then run against the modified Linux OS kernel, would LTP test >> suites be able to run? Or do I need to compile LTP and link with the >> modified OS kernel libraries? > > It should run perfectly well without recompilation even if you had > rebooted in a new (and much lateest) kernel version. Since LTP talks > to > kernel only through the GLIBC, AIO and other user space libraries, so, > until they are intact in the system, LTP will just run fine. Now, how > the user space libraries will interact with the new kernel is a > different ballgame altogether There are some kernel modules in ltp which aren't part of the default set which wouldn't function on the new kernel. Also if there is an ABI mismatch between the libs on machine A and machine B, you will have to recompile ltp or you will get potentially nondeterministic results.. -Garrett >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Ltp-list mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltp-list
