On Mon, Dec 8, 2025 at 12:39 PM Robert P. J. Day via
lists.openembedded.org <[email protected]>
wrote:
>
>
> working on a tutorial for ptest and i ran across an oddity under
> meta-openembedded, not sure if it means something or is just leftover
> cruft from days gone by. i found three recipes with the following
> construct (reformatted slightly for visual aesthetics):
>
> $ grep -r "PTEST_ENABLED.*run-ptest" *
>
> meta-oe/recipes-dbs/mysql/mariadb_11.4.9.bb:SRC_URI +=
> "${@bb.utils.contains('PTEST_ENABLED', '1', 'file://run-ptest', '', d)}"
>
> meta-oe/recipes-devtools/lapack/lapack_3.12.1.bb:
> ${@bb.utils.contains('PTEST_ENABLED', '1', 'file://run-ptest', '', d)} \
>
> meta-oe/recipes-support/re2/re2_2024.03.01.bb:
> ${@bb.utils.contains('PTEST_ENABLED', '1', 'file://run-ptest', '', d)} \
>
> all three recipes check whether PTEST_ENABLED = 1 before adding
> file://run-ptest to SRC_URI.
>
> is there any reason for this?
All three gained ptest support in 2023, two from the same author... my
money's on copy and paste from another recipe.
> all three recipes inherit ptest, so it
> seems that they *must* provide a run-ptest file. and even if one does
> not enable that setting with DISTRO_FEATURES += "ptest", if a recipe
> inherits ptest, does that not *require* that recipe to make sure a
> run-ptest file is available if called upon? or am i misreading
> something?
>
> rday
>
> p.s. i might ask a similar question about this snippet from
> ptest.bbclass:
>
> do_install_ptest_base() {
> if [ -f ${UNPACKDIR}/run-ptest ]; then
> install -D ${UNPACKDIR}/run-ptest ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/run-ptest
> fi
>
> if run-ptest does not come from UNPACKDIR, where would it come from?
> might the recipe generate that file dynamically upon package creation?
>
The golang classes do exactly that.
>
>
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Alex Kiernan
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