Re: [PATCH] selftests: kvm: fix mkdir error when building for non-supported arch

[Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>]

On 8/6/24 06:10, Muhammad Usama Anjum wrote:
> The mkdir generates an error when kvm suite is build for non-supported

built
unsupported

> architecture such as arm. Fix it by ignoring the error from mkdir.
> 
> mkdir: missing operand
> Try 'mkdir --help' for more information.

Simply suppressing the message isn't a good fix. Can you investigate
a bit more on why mkdir is failing and the architectures it is failing
on?

This change simply suppresses the error message and continues - Should
this error end the build process or not run mkdir to begin with by
checking why $(sort $(dir $(TEST_GEN_PROGS)))) results in an empty
string?

> 
> Signed-off-by: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@collabora.com>
> ---
>   tools/testing/selftests/kvm/Makefile | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/Makefile b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/Makefile
> index 48d32c5aa3eb7..8ff46a0a8d1cd 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/Makefile
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/Makefile
> @@ -317,7 +317,7 @@ $(LIBKVM_S_OBJ): $(OUTPUT)/%.o: %.S $(GEN_HDRS)
>   $(LIBKVM_STRING_OBJ): $(OUTPUT)/%.o: %.c
>   	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) $(TARGET_ARCH) -c -ffreestanding $< -o $@
>   
> -$(shell mkdir -p $(sort $(dir $(TEST_GEN_PROGS))))
> +$(shell mkdir -p $(sort $(dir $(TEST_GEN_PROGS))) > /dev/null 2>&1)
>   $(SPLIT_TEST_GEN_OBJ): $(GEN_HDRS)
>   $(TEST_GEN_PROGS): $(LIBKVM_OBJS)
>   $(TEST_GEN_PROGS_EXTENDED): $(LIBKVM_OBJS)


thanks,
-- Shuah