[Buildroot] [PATCH] package/linux-tools: selftests: add numactl dependency for net tests

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>]

Hello,

On Tue, 21 Apr 2020 20:51:40 +0300
Vadim Kochan <vadim4j@gmail.com> wrote:

> > So, I think we should:
> > 
> >  - Pass FORCE_TARGETS=1 during the build so that the build aborts if a
> >    required dependency is not found.
> > 
> >  - Switch to using more optional dependencies, and disable the TARGETS
> >    that we cannot build by passing the appropriate SKIP_TARGETS value
> >    to the Makefile.
> > 
> > Could you work on this ? We probably need to make libcap-ng optional,
> > but also popt. The other options that are selected by
> > BR2_PACKAGE_LINUX_TOOLS_SELFTESTS might also need to be revisited.
> > 
> > An alternative is to just say that we don't care about making all of
> > that optional, and simply unconditionally enable all the dependencies
> > that selftests need, to build everything. Easier, but that's not the
> > normal Buildroot design principle.
> > 
> > Best regards,
> > 
> > Thomas  
> 
> Yes, I understand your point. I think it would be useful to add config
> options per each selftests subsystem to easy turn it on.

I don't know if we really want to add one sub-option for each selftest
subsystem, that would be quite a lot.

However, we should properly enable/disable selftest subsystems
depending on the availability of the necessary dependencies. For
example, if numactl is enabled, then we enable the network-related
selftests, otherwise we disable them.

Best regards,

Thomas
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