Re: [kvm-unit-tests PATCH v1 1/1] s390x: fix make standalone

[Andrew Jones <andrew.jones@linux.dev>]

On Wed, Jan 04, 2023 at 12:07:20PM +0100, Claudio Imbrenda wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Dec 2022 19:41:12 +0100
> Andrew Jones <andrew.jones@linux.dev> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Dec 21, 2022 at 10:14:52AM +0100, Nico Boehr wrote:
> > > Quoting Nico Boehr (2022-12-21 09:16:51)  
> > > > Quoting Claudio Imbrenda (2022-12-20 18:55:08)  
> > > > > A recent patch broke make standalone. The function find_word is not
> > > > > available when running make standalone, replace it with a simple grep.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Reported-by: Nina Schoetterl-Glausch <nsg@linux.ibm.com>
> > > > > Fixes: 743cacf7 ("s390x: don't run migration tests under PV")
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>  
> > > > 
> > > > I am confused why find_word would not be available in standalone, since run() in runtime.bash uses it quite a few times.
> > > > 
> > > > Not that I mind the grep, but I fear more might be broken in standalone?  
> > 
> > standalone tests don't currently include scripts/$ARCH/func.bash, which
> > may be an issue for s390x. That could be fixed, though.
> > 
> > > > 
> > > > Anyways, to get this fixed ASAP:
> > > > 
> > > > Acked-by: Nico Boehr <nrb@linux.ibm.com>  
> > > 
> > > OK, I get it now, find_word is not available during _build time_.  
> > 
> > That could be changed, but it'd need to be moved to somewhere that
> > mkstandalone.sh wants to source, which could be common.bash, but
> > then we'd need to include common.bash in the standalone tests. So,
> > a new file for find_word() would be cleaner, but that sounds like
> > overkill.
> 
> the hack I posted here was meant to be "clean enough" and
> arch-only (since we are the only ones with this issue). To be
> honest, I don't really care __how__ we fix the problem, only that we do
> fix it :)
> 
> what do you think would be the cleanest solution?

A new file, but, like I said, that may be overkill at this time.

Thanks,
drew