[Skiboot] [PATCH 2/2] external/gard/tests: Add tests for the gard tool

[Cyril Bur]

On Tue, 08 Sep 2015 08:18:12 +1000
Stewart Smith <stewart at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> Cyril Bur <cyril.bur at au1.ibm.com> writes:
> > Simple tests for the gard tool that can be expanded on over time
> > +++ b/external/gard/test/Makefile.check
> 
> I would have almost expected this as part of the normal gard makefile,
> but then, again, fitting it into skiboot 'make check' may well be a good
> idea... although then we have the whole HOSTCC/TARGETCC thing to worry
> about, and if we were going to have, say, the debian packaging running
> the test suite as part of build, we'd have to have it get a bit weird to
> just run the gard test suite.
> 

Using the 'make check' infrastructure has obvious advantages, at least to me, I
must admit I didn't really consider disadvantages. Since these are userspace
components I can't imagine (can't wait to be proven wrong) that HOSTCC/TARGETCC
will be an issue, they're trivial programs. 

You raise an interesting point re having tests run as a part of debian
packaging... Surely you have thoughts?

> (At what point should we just go autotools for the userspace components
> and move them to usr/ rather than external/ ?)

Dibs not! *phew*