Re: [meta-filesystems][PATCH] overlayfs-tools: Inhibit tests on configure

[Vyacheslav Yurkov <uvv.mail@gmail.com>]

Thanks for the patch Marek.

Could you please explain how you hit the issue? I can't reproduce it.
The sudo is required only for tests, which is a custom meson target. 
It's not supposed to be called during configure.

Slava

On 21.10.2026 15:53, Marek Vasut wrote:
> In case the overlayfs-tools are built using meson, a test triggers
> during meson setup phase during do_configure task. The test invokes
> "sudo", which may not be present on the build machine. Skip the test
> at meson setup phase. Tests should be executed separately on demand
> using "meson test" command instead, and invoking "sudo" and expecting
> it to work during do_configure is unusual.
>
> "
> ERROR: overlayfs-tools-v2025.01-r0 do_configure: meson setup failed
> ...
> | Run-time dependency musl-fts found: NO (tried pkgconfig)
> | Library m found: YES
> | Program test_cases/run_tests.py found: YES (/home/oe/build-some-target/tmp/work/arm64-distro-linux/overlayfs-tools/v2025.01/sources/overlayfs-tools-v2025.01/test_cases/run_tests.py)
> |
> | ../sources/overlayfs-tools-v2025.01/meson.build:94:0: ERROR: Program 'sudo' not found or not executable
> |
> | A full log can be found at /home/oe/build-some-target/tmp/work/arm64-distro-linux/overlayfs-tools/v2025.01/build/meson-logs/meson-log.txt
> |
> | Last 10 lines of meson-log.txt:
> | Code:
> | int main(void) { return 0; }
> "
>
> Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@mailbox.org>
> ---
> Cc: Alexander Kanavin <alex@linutronix.de>
> Cc: Ankur Tyagi <ankur.tyagi85@gmail.com>
> Cc: Khem Raj <khem.raj@oss.qualcomm.com>
> Cc: Vyacheslav Yurkov <uvv.mail@gmail.com>
> ---
>   .../recipes-utils/overlayfs/overlayfs-tools_2025.01.bb        | 4 ++++
>   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/meta-filesystems/recipes-utils/overlayfs/overlayfs-tools_2025.01.bb b/meta-filesystems/recipes-utils/overlayfs/overlayfs-tools_2025.01.bb
> index 8583a0e2cb..3b5963bb26 100644
> --- a/meta-filesystems/recipes-utils/overlayfs/overlayfs-tools_2025.01.bb
> +++ b/meta-filesystems/recipes-utils/overlayfs/overlayfs-tools_2025.01.bb
> @@ -14,3 +14,7 @@ UPSTREAM_CHECK_GITTAGREGEX = "v(?P<pver>\d+(\.\d+)+)"
>   inherit meson pkgconfig
>   
>   DEPENDS:append:libc-musl = " fts"
> +
> +do_configure:prepend() {
> +	sed -i '/Custom targets for testing overlay function/,/command : .*permanent...changes/ d' ${S}/meson.build
> +}