Re: [OE-core][master][PATCH] libpcre2: Enabling Ptest support

[Ross Burton <Ross.Burton@arm.com>]

On 20 Jan 2026, at 07:39, Shaik Moin via lists.openembedded.org <careers.myinfo=gmail.com@lists.openembedded.org> wrote:
> +echo "START: ptest-runner"
> +date +"%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M"
> +echo "BEGIN: $(pwd)"


This isn’t ptest-runner, this is libpcre. You can drop these lines.

> +if [ -n "$results" ]; then
> +    printf "%b\n" "$results"
> +fi

This has already been printed, not sure I see the value of printing it again.

> +do_install_ptest() {
> +        t=${D}${PTEST_PATH}
> +        cp -r ${S}/testdata $t
> +        for i in pcre2posix_test pcre2grep pcre2test; \
> +          do cp ${B}/.libs/$i $t; \

This assumes that libtool is putting temporary files in specific location. Instead, use libtool to install libtool-built binaries:

${B}/libtool —mode=install install ${B}/$i $t

> +        # Skip the fr_FR locale test. If the locale fr_FR is found, it is tested.
> +        # If not found, the test is skipped. The test program assumes fr_FR is non-UTF-8
> +        # locale so the test fails if fr_FR is UTF-8 locale.
> +        sed -i -e 's:do3=yes:do3=no:g' ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/RunTest

Probably worth filing an upstream bug about that assumption.

Ross