Re: [LTP] [PATCH 1/1] configure.ac: Fix summary for disabled metadata

[Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>]

> Hi!
> > > The JSON metadata file is going to replace the runtest files some day,
> > > at least that is the longterm plan. Also the parser that extracts the
> > > metadata from the sources is rather fast, compared to the LTP build and
> > > it's self contained. There is really no reason to have a switch to
> > > disable the metadat extraction step.

> > > The documentation build, on the other hand, is rather slow and requires
> > > asciidoc, which is the reason why there is a switch that can be used to
> > > disable that. The only problem here is that the name is a bit confusing
> > > now.

> > Actually there is, that is where my interest in this flag comes from. We
> > don't use runtest files (at least not for execution), so we don't need
> > it and we had problems in out cross build environment, that were not
> > easily fixed. From looking at the source I am not sure what the problem
> > was and cannot spot it from looking at the source. But I know, that it
> > wasn't just fixed by setting the correct HOSTCC and HOST_CFLAGS. I have
> > a missing library in my head, but I can't see any.

> That is really strange, there are practically no dependencies for the
> metadata extractor. All that you have to have is a C compiler and libc.

> > All I know is that I gave up fixing the build and I don't give up easily
> > normally (a little easier if the functionality is not needed at all) :)

> You should have reported that on the list. It's going to be really
> cornerstone of the way how tests are executed so the build should get
> fixed anyways.
It's a question if it's a problem of building C or a problem of integrating LTP
build to another build system.

> I guess that we can add a flag that disables the metadata extraction
> step, with a big red warning that describes the consequencies of the
> choice.
Let's see if we can solve the problem. If not, it might help also to others to
have flag disabling all metadata build (probably named --disable-metadata
and name current --disable-metadata functionality as --disable-docparse).

Kind regards,
Petr

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