Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 06/12] docker: Add basic test

[Alex Bennée]

Peter Maydell <address@hidden> writes:

> On 15 February 2016 at 14:34, Alex Bennée <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> Fam Zheng <address@hidden> writes:
>>> +cd $(mktemp -d)
>>> +mkdir build
>>> +mkdir install
>>> +cd build
>>> +build_qemu --target-list=x86_64-softmmu --prefix="${pwd}/install"
>
> Why restrict the target list ?
>
>>> +make check $MAKEFLAGS
>>> +make install
>>
>> From my excursions last week into the tests directory I discovered the
>> unit tests are built for a number of different qtest binaries. For
>> completeness we should probably include the whole list:
>>
>> #+name: qtest-targets
>> #+begin_src sh :dir ~/lsrc/qemu/qemu.git :results scalar
>> grep -E "check-qtest-[[:alnum:]]+-y " tests/Makefile | cut -d " " -f 1 | 
>> sort -u
>> #+end_src
>>
>> #+RESULTS: qtest-targets
>> #+begin_example
>> check-qtest-arm-y
>> check-qtest-generic-y
>> check-qtest-i386-y
>> check-qtest-ipack-y
>> check-qtest-microblazeel-y
>> check-qtest-mips64el-y
>> check-qtest-mips64-y
>> check-qtest-mips-y
>> check-qtest-pci-y
>> check-qtest-ppc64-y
>> check-qtest-ppc-y
>> check-qtest-sh4eb-y
>> check-qtest-sh4-y
>> #check-qtest-sparc64-y
>> check-qtest-sparc64-y
>> #check-qtest-sparc-y
>> check-qtest-virtioserial-y
>> check-qtest-virtio-y
>> check-qtest-x86_64-y
>> check-qtest-xtensaeb-y
>> check-qtest-y
>> #+end_example
>
> I'm having difficulty figuring out what you're proposing here,
> but it looks like you're suggesting listing all the check-qtest-*
> test names again here, which seems worth avoiding. We should
> just do a build and make check and let that take care of
> running all the tests.

Well there is a halfway house between building one target and building
all possible targets. Not all the softmmu targets include additional
tests. Having said that it is probably simpler as you say to just build
everything.

>
> thanks
> -- PMM


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Alex Bennée