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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, bluca@debian.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 4/6] devtools/test-meson-builds: add testing of pkg-config file
Date: Thu, 02 May 2019 15:57:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3926136.XBKk6lCCy9@xps> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190502132100.GB1980@bricha3-MOBL.ger.corp.intel.com>

02/05/2019 15:21, Bruce Richardson:
> On Thu, May 02, 2019 at 02:38:49PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I will probably have a ton of comments about adding a new compilation tests,
> > and I think it is a bit late for such an addition.
> > However, all the fixes should go in 19.05.

It would be more reasonnable to leave it for 19.08
and re-spin with fixes only.

> > 26/04/2019 18:50, Bruce Richardson:
> > > The pkg-config file generated as part of the build of DPDK should allow
> > > applications to be built with an installed DPDK. We can test this as
> > > part of the build by doing an install of DPDK to a temporary directory
> > > within the build folder, and by then compiling up a few sample apps
> > > using make working off that directory.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
> > > Acked-by: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>
> > > ---
> > > --- a/devtools/test-meson-builds.sh
> > > +++ b/devtools/test-meson-builds.sh
> > > +##############
> > > +# Test installation of the x86-default target, to be used for checking
> > > +# the sample apps build using the pkg-config file for cflags and libs
> > > +###############
> > 
> > I would prefer simpler comment formatting.
> > It makes this test very special.
> 
> Your comment implies that it is not :-)
> Sure, I can reduce the highlighting.
> 
> > 
> > > +build_path=build-x86-default
> > > +DESTDIR=`pwd`/$build_path/install-root ; export DESTDIR
> > 
> > export DESTDIR=... is not supported everywhere?
> 
> No 100% sure, so left it like this just in case.

Hmmm, i would prefer "export DESTDIR="

> > I prefer new shell substitution syntax $() instead of backquotes.
> > 
> Sure, I agree it's more readable.
> 
> > > +$ninja_cmd -C $build_path install
> > > +
> > > +pc_file=$(find $DESTDIR -name libdpdk.pc)
> > > +PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$(dirname $pc_file) ; export PKG_CONFIG_PATH
> > > +
> > > +# rather than hacking our environment, just edit the .pc file prefix value
> > > +sed -i -e "s|prefix=|prefix=$DESTDIR|" $pc_file
> > 
> > What is the alternative?
> > Cannot we configure meson with the right prefix?
> 
> See previous discussion.
> Short answer, yes we can, but the prefix does not apply to kernel modules
> as they always install in /lib/modules folder.

We could do better by providing this ability in our
build system without hack.

> > > +for example in helloworld l2fwd l3fwd skeleton timer; do
> > > +	echo "## Building $example"
> > > +	$MAKE -C $DESTDIR/usr/local/share/dpdk/examples/$example
> > > +done
> > > +
> > > +echo ""
> > > +echo "## $0: Completed OK"
> > 
> > This last log is uncommon.
> > 
> Yes, it is. However, due to parallelism, sometimes there is an error
> message printed out that scrolls off-screen as the other build processes
> come to a halt. I felt it worthwhile to add this at the end to ensure it
> was clear whether things succeeded or not. If you prefer, I can change it
> to a print on failure?

Failures are caught by 'set -e'.
Personnally I don't need such log because my shell prints me an error
when $? is not 0, but I can understand the need.
If you want to print $0, basename may render prettier.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-05-02 13:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 88+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-04-23 22:06 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/4] add testing of libdpdk " Bruce Richardson
2019-04-23 22:06 ` Bruce Richardson
2019-04-23 22:06 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/4] examples: install examples as part of ninja install Bruce Richardson
2019-04-23 22:06   ` Bruce Richardson
2019-04-23 22:06 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/4] examples: simplify getting list of all examples Bruce Richardson
2019-04-23 22:06   ` Bruce Richardson
2019-04-23 22:06 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/4] devtools/test-meson-builds: add testing of pkg-config file Bruce Richardson
2019-04-23 22:06   ` Bruce Richardson
2019-04-24  9:22   ` Luca Boccassi
2019-04-24  9:22     ` Luca Boccassi
2019-04-24 10:41     ` Bruce Richardson
2019-04-24 10:41       ` Bruce Richardson
2019-04-24 11:02       ` Luca Boccassi
2019-04-24 11:02         ` Luca Boccassi
2019-04-24 12:31         ` Bruce Richardson
2019-04-24 12:31           ` Bruce Richardson
2019-04-24 13:37           ` Luca Boccassi
2019-04-24 13:37             ` Luca Boccassi
2019-04-26 14:56             ` Bruce Richardson
2019-04-26 14:56               ` Bruce Richardson
2019-04-26 16:10               ` Luca Boccassi
2019-04-26 16:10                 ` Luca Boccassi
2019-05-02 13:11               ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-05-02 13:11                 ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-05-02 13:17                 ` Bruce Richardson
2019-05-02 13:17                   ` Bruce Richardson
2019-05-02 14:08                   ` Luca Boccassi
2019-05-02 14:08                     ` Luca Boccassi
2019-05-02 15:11                     ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-05-02 15:11                       ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-05-02 15:30                       ` Bruce Richardson
2019-05-02 15:30                         ` Bruce Richardson
2019-05-02 15:38                         ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-05-02 15:38                           ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-05-02 15:41                           ` Bruce Richardson
2019-05-02 15:41                             ` Bruce Richardson
2019-04-23 22:06 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 4/4] build: add libbsd to pkg-config file if enabled Bruce Richardson
2019-04-23 22:06   ` Bruce Richardson
2019-04-23 23:04 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/4] add testing of libdpdk pkg-config file Stephen Hemminger
2019-04-23 23:04   ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-04-24  8:54   ` Bruce Richardson
2019-04-24  8:54     ` Bruce Richardson
2019-04-24  9:00     ` Bruce Richardson
2019-04-24  9:00       ` Bruce Richardson
2019-04-26 16:11 ` Luca Boccassi
2019-04-26 16:11   ` Luca Boccassi
2019-04-26 16:20   ` Bruce Richardson
2019-04-26 16:20     ` Bruce Richardson
2019-04-26 16:50 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/6] " Bruce Richardson
2019-04-26 16:50   ` Bruce Richardson
2019-04-26 16:50   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/6] examples/l3fwd: fix compile on FreeBSD Bruce Richardson
2019-04-26 16:50     ` Bruce Richardson
2019-05-01 10:10     ` Luca Boccassi
2019-05-01 10:10       ` Luca Boccassi
2019-04-26 16:50   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/6] examples: install examples as part of ninja install Bruce Richardson
2019-04-26 16:50     ` Bruce Richardson
2019-04-26 16:50   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 3/6] build: fix ninja install on FreeBSD Bruce Richardson
2019-04-26 16:50     ` Bruce Richardson
2019-05-01 10:10     ` Luca Boccassi
2019-05-01 10:10       ` Luca Boccassi
2019-04-26 16:50   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 4/6] devtools/test-meson-builds: add testing of pkg-config file Bruce Richardson
2019-04-26 16:50     ` Bruce Richardson
2019-05-02 12:38     ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-05-02 12:38       ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-05-02 12:54       ` Luca Boccassi
2019-05-02 12:54         ` Luca Boccassi
2019-05-02 13:21       ` Bruce Richardson
2019-05-02 13:21         ` Bruce Richardson
2019-05-02 13:57         ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2019-05-02 13:57           ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-04-26 16:50   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 5/6] build: add libbsd to pkg-config file if enabled Bruce Richardson
2019-04-26 16:50     ` Bruce Richardson
2019-04-26 16:50   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 6/6] examples: remove auto-generation of examples list Bruce Richardson
2019-04-26 16:50     ` Bruce Richardson
2019-05-01 10:10     ` Luca Boccassi
2019-05-01 10:10       ` Luca Boccassi
2019-05-02 16:51   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 0/4] file meson compilation and install issues Bruce Richardson
2019-05-02 16:51     ` Bruce Richardson
2019-05-02 16:51     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 1/4] examples/l3fwd: fix compile on FreeBSD Bruce Richardson
2019-05-02 16:51       ` Bruce Richardson
2019-05-02 16:51     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 2/4] examples: install examples as part of ninja install Bruce Richardson
2019-05-02 16:51       ` Bruce Richardson
2019-05-02 16:51     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 3/4] build: fix ninja install on FreeBSD Bruce Richardson
2019-05-02 16:51       ` Bruce Richardson
2019-05-02 16:51     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 4/4] build: add libbsd to pkg-config file if enabled Bruce Richardson
2019-05-02 16:51       ` Bruce Richardson
2019-05-02 21:09     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 0/4] file meson compilation and install issues Thomas Monjalon
2019-05-02 21:09       ` Thomas Monjalon

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