Re: [OE-core][scarthgap][PATCH 1/2] libpcre2: Enable Ptest Support

["Yoann Congal" <yoann.congal@smile.fr>]

On Wed Feb 11, 2026 at 8:23 AM CET, Shaik Moin via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> Install libpcre2 test suite and run it as ptest.
>
> Add tests for POSIX wrapper (pcre2posix_test), core PCRE2 engine (RunTest), and grep utility (RunGrepTest).
>
> pcre2posix_test: Verifies the POSIX wrapper API
> RunTest: Executes the core PCRE2 test suite through pcre2test
> RunGrepTest: Checks pcre2grep to ensure its grepping style matching works as expected with various patterns and input files.
>
> Signed-off-by: Shaik Moin <moins@kpit.com>
> ---
>  .../libpcre/libpcre2/run-ptest                | 39 +++++++------------
>  .../recipes-support/libpcre/libpcre2_10.43.bb | 22 +++++------
>  2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

Thanks for the patches but, as I already wrote, adding ptest is not
usually acceptable under the stable policy[0]. That also applies to your
kirkstone patch.

[0]: https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Stable_Release_and_LTS#Stable/LTS_Patch_Acceptance_Policies

Regards,
-- 
Yoann Congal
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