Re: [LTP] [PATCH v3 2/2] Add Linux Test eXecutor inside tools

[Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>]

> Hi!
> > Unfortunately this does not work well either because the ltx does not
> > have install targed and trying to install a file from a subdirectory is
> > not possible with the LTP build system. I've tried that and it didn't
> > work.

> > Let's merge this version that works, we can try to do make things better
> > later on.

> Also one more point $(MAKE) -C ltx-src does not support out-of-tree
> build and while it's probably fine for 'make check' not to support it,
> since that is a developer tooling, it should work fine for ltx that is
> going to be packaged/installed on the SUT.
Very good point! It'd be nice to note this reason in the git commit message.

> So I suppose that we are stuck with the LTP ltx Makefile unless we:

> - add support for out-of-tree build to ltx/Makefile
> - drop out-of-tree build support from LTP

I guess even Buildroot and Yocto does not use out-of-tree build.
Maybe we should really remove the support.

Kind regards,
Petr


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