Re: [LTP] [PATCH] configure: Check for KVM linker script support

[Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>]

> Hi!
> > > Skipping the whole directory will actually cause problems too, since the
> > > runltp files does include the kvm_pagefault01 now which will obvious
> > > fail because the binary would be missing.

> > > I'm not sure what the best solution would be, maybe install dummy
> > > libraries that just print TCONF in a case that linker does now work?

> > KVM tests have their own runfile which can be simply skipped. These
> > tests should not be included in any other runfiles because they should
> > only be run on baremetal. That's the solution: Don't run the KVM runfile
> > if the KVM tests were not built.

> > Also, the KVM Makefile already builds nothing on non-x86 archs so the
> > problem was there from the beginning.

I thought we're using TST_TEST_TCONF() for non-x86 archs.

> Looks like these are not in default scenario either, then this is not a
> reson to block the patch. However we should really figure out how to
> deal with cases like this at least for the new testrunner.

Yes, not having to use TST_TEST_TCONF() would be nice.

Kind regards,
Petr

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