Re: [RFC PATCH] selftests: use INSTALL_HDR_PATH instead of relative paths

From: Sudeep Holla
Date: Thu Jan 14 2016 - 06:17:51 EST




On 14/01/16 03:37, Michael Ellerman wrote:
On Mon, 2016-01-11 at 14:22 +0000, Sudeep Holla wrote:

The selftests build fails or picks up wrong headers when cross-compiling
and build directory is different from source as the headers are referred
using the relative paths.

This patch use $INSTALL_HDR_PATH to fix the compilation. It also removes
installing the headers.

Cc: Shuah Khan <shuahkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@xxxxxxx>
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tools/testing/selftests/membarrier/Makefile | 2 +-
tools/testing/selftests/memfd/Makefile | 2 +-
tools/testing/selftests/net/Makefile | 2 +-
tools/testing/selftests/vm/Makefile | 7 ++-----
4 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

Hi,

When I was cross-compiling these tests for arm{32,64}, I faced issues.
With limited knowledge I have on this build system, I came up with this
patch. Please treat this as bug report if this approach makes no-sense
and suggest on how to fix it.

Yeah sorry that doesn't work.

If $(INSTALL_HDR_PATH) isn't defined you end up with:

gcc -Wall -I /include -o compaction_test compaction_test.c -lrt
^


Ah OK, I got carried away by below in the main Makefile.

#Default location for installed headers
export INSTALL_HDR_PATH = $(objtree)/usr

Which is wrong.

INSTALL_HDR_PATH will not be defined when the tests are built standalone, ie.
like:

$ make -C tools/testing/selftests


Thanks for pointing this out. I had totally forgotten about that.


This has been on my todo list to fix, but it doesn't actually bother me so I
haven't got around to it.

Does the patch below work for you? It uses INSTALL_HDR_PATH if it is defined,
or otherwise KERNEL_HEADERS if it is defined, or finally it guesses at
../../../usr/include (ie. the base of the source tree).


Yes it does work fine. So feel free to add my tested-by when you post
the patch. Thanks for the quick and clean fix.

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Regards,
Sudeep