From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga06.intel.com (mga06.intel.com [134.134.136.31]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAEFB2C08 for ; Wed, 15 Feb 2017 18:41:11 +0100 (CET) Received: from fmsmga006.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.20]) by orsmga104.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 15 Feb 2017 09:41:10 -0800 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.35,166,1484035200"; d="scan'208";a="66189311" Received: from fyigit-mobl1.ger.corp.intel.com (HELO [10.237.220.137]) ([10.237.220.137]) by fmsmga006.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 15 Feb 2017 09:41:09 -0800 To: Bruce Richardson References: <20170214151326.7554-1-ferruh.yigit@intel.com> <20170215152632.25081-1-ferruh.yigit@intel.com> <20170215152632.25081-3-ferruh.yigit@intel.com> <20170215170724.GA89892@bricha3-MOBL3.ger.corp.intel.com> Cc: Thomas Monjalon , dev@dpdk.org, John McNamara , Keith Wiles From: Ferruh Yigit Message-ID: <81cc47aa-73dc-bd6c-6442-51571585cbfe@intel.com> Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 17:41:08 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.7.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20170215170724.GA89892@bricha3-MOBL3.ger.corp.intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/4] mk: add new test-run make rule X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 17:41:12 -0000 On 2/15/2017 5:07 PM, Bruce Richardson wrote: > On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 03:26:31PM +0000, Ferruh Yigit wrote: >> Since "make test" and "make test-build" does dependency resolving, they >> check for all dependent components (lib and drivers) which takes a few >> seconds. >> >> This is a good feature during development, but if the target is just >> running unit test, that step is unnecessary, it is possible to compile >> onece and run unit test multiple times, without checking any code update >> >> For this purpose, a new make rule "make test-run" added. Which just runs >> the unit test, expects that unit test already compiled. >> >> Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit >> --- > Sorry, I just don't see the point of having an extra command to maintain > and document for the sake of a few seconds on a unit test run. How long > does the run itself take compared to the time to check dependencies? It is matter of choice, it does not take much time for "make test", but still I thought it is handy to have a rule only to run the test. I don't expect much maintenance cost with this, also I don't have strong opinion to keep it. > > /Bruce >