On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:48:46 +0530 Subrata Modak wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > background:
> >
> > LTP's library (lib/tst_res.c) supports a common test results output
> > format. LTP also provides tools/apicmds/ltpapicmd.c as a command-line
> > interface to the test results library code.
> >
> > I want to use some common test results format in some automated
> > kernel testing that I am doing (just plain text, not XML :).
> > I could make up a(nother) test results format, but why do that?
> > or I could choose something else that is already out there.
> > Anyway, I'm testing using the LTP API command-line tools with
> > non-LTP tests, so I have made a small tarball of lib/tst_res.c,
> > tools/apicmds/ltpapicmd.c, 2 .h files, and a new Makefile so that
> > these can be built and installed for other users of them.
> >
> > The .c and .h files are used without modifications. Here is the
> > Notes file from the tarball:
> >
> > ---
> > ltp-tstres-001: 20071231
> > Provides LTP standard common output test results command-line tools
> > that can be used by other testing projects so that all can share a
> > common test results output format.
> >
> > Taken from ltp-full-20071130 (unmodified):
> > tools/apicmds/ltpapicmd.c
> > lib/tst_res.c
> > include/test.h
> > include/usctest.h
> >
> > + (new) Makefile, which builds binary 'ltp_tst_res' & will install it
> > (using "make install") into DESTDIR=/usr/local/bin and make symlinks for
> > the (8) LTP tst_xyz command-line tools. "make uninstall" removes the
> > installed files.
> > ---
>
> Randy,
>
> Recently there has been some requirement of an LTP-DEVEL Package (may
> also be in the form of an RPM) which will contain runltp, pan, lib and
> other LTP tools, for facilitating development of unit test cases by
> developers, who may not be interested to download the entire LTP bundle
> to start developing their interested test cases.
>
> To begin with we can have some RPM which on installation will:
>
> 1) build either liltp.a or libltp.so and install it under /lib
> or /usr/lib,
> 2) build tool/apicmds and install the binary version(s) of tst_res,
> tst_resm, tst_brk, etc (to be used by Shell Script Test Cases) either
> at /usr/bin/ or /bin directory,
> 3) Builds as well as installs pan under /usr/bin/ or /bin directory,
> [Presently pan is called with absoulte path inside runltp:
> ${LTPROOT}/pan/pan],
> 4) Installs ustest.h file under /include or /usr/include,
> 5) And can even install runltp script under /usr/bin/ or /bin.
>
> With this, user can develop Unit Test Cases anywhere in the system and
> then:
> 1) While building test cases, LTP headers and Library definitions can be
> statically or dynamically linked,
> 2) While running, runltp can invoke pan as it is in system path [/bin
> or /usr/bin]
> 3) Script test cases which uses the binary versions of apicmds can also
> be run, as, these apicmds are in system path.
>
> If this can be developed and used successfully, later we can think of
> bisecting LTP tree to 2 parts namely devel-package and
> testcases-package.
>
> What is you idea on this ??
Hi Subrata,
It all sounds good to me.
I would think that most of the target directories would be
parameter(s) to the build of ltp-devel-package.
Thanks.
> Regards--
> Subrata
>
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> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1888996&group_id=3382&atid=103382,
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>
> >
> > The tarball for release 001 is available at:
> > http://oss.oracle.com/~rdunlap/ltp-tstres/ltp-tstres-001.tar.gz
> > (this may not be a permanent location)
---
~Randy
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