> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marcos Paulo de Souza <[email protected]>
>
...
> Per the kselftests documentation[1], the gen_tar target is used to package the
> tests to run "on different systems". But what if the different system has
> different libraries/library versions? Wouldn't it be a problem?
>
...
>
> While the current approach can work when the selftests rely solely on shell
> scripts(cpufreq, kexec),
> those who compile userspace binaries (cgroup, alsa, sched, ...) may not work.
>
> Am I missing something? Is gen_tar only meant to copy the tests to be run on
> systems with the same libraries or with the libraries with the exactly the
> same
> version?
gen_tar was originally intended (I believe) for developers doing
cross-compilation.
The SDK used for cross-compilation of the executables should handle issues such
as
library versions (and of course, CPU architecture and endian-ness).
I've never done cross-compilation for the same architecture, so I don't know
how that
would work, but I presume there is some way to compile code for another system
with the same architecture but different libraries.
-- Tim
