Re: more ptest pedantry: why conditionally include "run-ptest" in SRC_URI?

["Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>]

On Mon, 12 Feb 2024, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

>
>   more annoying nitpickery ... here:
>
> https://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/tree/meta/recipes-extended/xz/xz_5.4.5.bb#n28
>
> it's not clear why someone would go to the trouble of conditionally
> including run-ptest in SRC_URI as i would have thought the only
> benefit would be to avoid the triviality of copying run-ptest into
> WORKDIR, but beyond that, i don't see what the point is, and that's
> the only recipe i've run across that bothers to do that.
>
>   is there something more subtle happening here?

  just for fun, tripped over a number of recipes in meta-openembedded
that do the same thing, like this:

https://git.openembedded.org/meta-openembedded/tree/meta-oe/recipes-support/re2/re2_2023.03.01.bb#n10
https://git.openembedded.org/meta-openembedded/tree/meta-networking/recipes-protocols/freediameter/freediameter_1.4.0.bb#n21

and more. i'm *guessing* that's not necessary, but it doesn't hurt.

rday