From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/3] ltp-testsuite: change install prefix
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2016 23:27:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161003232756.10de67a8@free-electrons.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1475322624-20518-1-git-send-email-nunes.erico@gmail.com>
Hello,
On Sat, 1 Oct 2016 13:50:22 +0200, Erico Nunes wrote:
> ltp-testsuite installs some of its files directly at its specified
> prefix, which by default in Buildroot is /usr for autotools packages.
> This is currently leaving scripts and its internal directories directly
> installed in /usr, such as in:
>
> # ls /usr
> IDcheck.sh lib64 runltplite.sh share
> Version libexec runtest testcases
> bin runalltests.sh sbin testscripts
> lib runltp scenario_groups ver_linux
>
> It also seems to be not feasible to try to install all of its testcases
> to standard locations such as /usr/bin as may contain hundreds of
> binaries and may not be able to find them all if we change their install
> locations. Therefore, it is better if ltp-testsuite installs its tree to
> its own self-contained subdirectory.
> Upstream instructions recommend that the install path be /opt/ltp,
> however it seems that installing things to /opt is not a very common
> Buildroot practice.
> The proposal then is to install it to /usr/lib/ltp-testsuite and so it
> can be run directly from there.
>
> Signed-off-by: Erico Nunes <nunes.erico@gmail.com>
> ---
> The /usr/lib/ltp-testsuite suggestion came from a brief discussion that
> I had on IRC about where would be the least bad place to install it.
> Alternatives could be /usr/share/ltp-testsuite or even /opt/ltp if we
> were to strictly follow the upstream documentation.
> It doesn't matter too much really as long as it doesn't mess /usr up
> anymore.
> ---
> package/ltp-testsuite/ltp-testsuite.mk | 4 ++++
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
Applied to master, thanks.
Thomas
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-03 21:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-01 11:50 [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/3] ltp-testsuite: change install prefix Erico Nunes
2016-10-01 11:50 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 2/3] ltp-testsuite: bump to version 20160920 Erico Nunes
2016-10-03 21:37 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2016-10-08 4:14 ` Waldemar Brodkorb
2016-10-01 11:50 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 3/3] ltp-testsuite: make Config.in libc comment standard Erico Nunes
2016-10-03 21:37 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2016-10-03 21:27 ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
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