Hi Shuah,
On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 8:05 AM Shuah Khan skhan@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
Add kselftest_install target to install tests from the top level Makefile. This is to simplify kselftest use-cases for CI and distributions where build and test systems are different.
This change addresses requests from developers and testers to add support for installing kselftest from the main Makefile.
In addition, make the install directory the same when install is run using "make kselftest_install" or by running kselftest_install.sh. Also fix the INSTALL_PATH variable conflict between main Makefile.
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan skhan@linuxfoundation.org
So, if these two patches were applied, we would see the following:
PHONY += kselftest_build kselftest_build: $(Q)$(MAKE) -C $(srctree)/tools/testing/selftests all
PHONY += kselftest kselftest: $(Q)$(MAKE) -C $(srctree)/tools/testing/selftests run_tests
PHONY += kselftest_install kselftest_install: $(Q)$(MAKE) -C $(srctree)/tools/testing/selftests install
PHONY += kselftest-clean kselftest-clean: $(Q)$(MAKE) -C $(srctree)/tools/testing/selftests clean
I do not want to see this endless crap addition just for changing the working directory to $(srctree)/tools/testing/selftests
Why don't you use pattern rule? Those will be reduced into the two rules.
PHONY += kselftest kselftest: $(Q)$(MAKE) -C $(srctree)/tools/testing/selftests run_tests
kselftest-%: FORCE $(Q)$(MAKE) -C $(srctree)/tools/testing/selftests $*
This also avoids your inconsistency about "kselftest-" vs "kselftest_".
Given the existing "kselftest-clean" and "kselftest-merge", "kselftest_build" and "kselftest_install" (using an underscore instead of n hyphen) would add needless confusion.