Re: [PATCH 0/6] selftests: improve cross compilation support

Shuah Khan
2015-04-02T13:53:16Z

On 04/01/2015 05:20 PM, Tyler Baker wrote:
> This patch set improves cross building functionality by resovling hard coded
> assumptions about the compiler used. With this patch set, all but mqueue,
> and kdbus cross build successfully as they must link against a native
> libraries. The hope is tha the above issues can be resolved in future patch
> sets. I have tested this series by building selftests for x86_64, arm and
> arm64 targets.
>
> This motivation behind this series is to enable the kernelci.org service to
> easily build, deploy, and execute selftests on many different processor
> architectures without natively compiling them. With the hope of quickly
> providing these test results back to the community.
>
> This series is based on next-20150401.
>
> Tyler Baker (6):
> selftest/memfd: enable cross compilation
> selftest/kdbus: enable cross compilation
> selftest/mount: enable cross compilation
> selftest/memfd: include default header install path
> selftest/ipc: enable cross compilation
> selftest/mqueue: enable cross compilation
>
> tools/testing/selftests/ipc/Makefile | 6 +-----
> tools/testing/selftests/kdbus/Makefile | 4 ++--
> tools/testing/selftests/memfd/Makefile | 8 +++++---
> tools/testing/selftests/mount/Makefile | 5 +++--
> tools/testing/selftests/mqueue/Makefile | 6 ++++--
> 5 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
>

Tyler,

Thanks for getting this work done. It is a bit late for
4.1 and I plan to get these into 4.2.

thanks,
-- Shuah

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Shuah Khan
Sr. Linux Kernel Developer
Open Source Innovation Group
Samsung Research America (Silicon Valley)
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