Re: [OE-core] [PATCH v2] tiff: add ptest support

["Antonin Godard" <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>]

Hi,

On Mon Sep 21, 2026 at 12:11 PM CEST, Himani Ramesh Barde via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> Enable ptest for tiff (libtiff), running the upstream test suite shipped
> in the source test/ directory: the C unit-test programs (check_PROGRAMS)
> plus the shell-script tests that exercise the tiff command-line tools.
>
> do_compile_ptest builds the test programs via "make check TESTS=" (build
> only, no run). do_install_ptest installs the compiled test binaries (real
> ELF from test/.libs, static testtypes from test/), the shell test scripts,
> the shared common.sh helper, and the images/refs data. common.sh is
> adjusted so the scripts find the installed tiff tools in ${bindir} rather
> than the build tree's ../tools, and run-ptest recreates the SOURCE_DIR
> path that test_ifd_loop_detection was compiled with so its images resolve
> on target.
>
> The list of C test programs is defined once in the recipe (TIFF_PTEST_PROGS)
> and substituted into run-ptest at install time to avoid duplication. The
> wrapper emits automake-style PASS/FAIL/SKIP results and skips two tests
> whose optional support is not built in the default configuration: the JBIG
> test (jbig is not in the default PACKAGECONFIG) and the thumbnail test (the
> thumbnail tool is not built).
>
> Registered in ptest-packagelists.inc under PTESTS_SLOW; the suite runs in
> roughly 30s on qemux86-64.
>
> Validated on qemux86-64: 17 C unit tests and 85 shell-script tests pass,
> 2 skipped (jbig, thumbnail), 0 failed.

This fails on different architectures on our test infra:

Failed ptests:
{'tiff': ['test_ifd_loop_detection']}

Full log: https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/api/v2/logs/9053625/raw_inline
Parent build: https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/73/builds/4607
Other archs:
https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/109/builds/1249
https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/110/builds/1234

Can you have a look?

Thanks,
Antonin