[lttng-dev] [OE-core] [PATCH] Enable ptest support for lttng.

[Christian Babeux]

> Still, I think it's good to include these tests. If anything they may
> just provide more motivation to address the underlying issue. :-)

Absolutely! I'll start a thread on lttng-dev to see how we can deal
with the current testsuite limitations.

>>> ++prove --merge -v --exec '' - < $1 | sed \
>>> ++  -e 's|^ok \(.*\)|PASS: \1|' \
>>> ++  -e 's|^not ok \(.*\)|FAIL: \1|' \
>>> ++  | egrep -h 'PASS|FAIL'
>> This is sadly needed because we are using TAP as our standardized test
>> output format across the multiples lttng codebases.
>
> Do you think it would be worthwhile submitting this patch upstream ?

This is pretty much OpenEmbedded specific and I don't think it is of
much use outside of ptest support.

> (The output format of prove is not the easiest to understand, and even
> with the above some information may be lost. A more robust fix would
> probably include a dedicated TAP formatter plugin
> (http://perldoc.perl.org/TAP/Formatter/Console.html) that produces
> ptest-compatible output.

Yes that would be a cleaner way of dealing with it. We would only need
to feed the appropriate 'testlist' file to this script and get proper
conversion of TAP to Automake-style test output. I'm wondering if such
a script would be useful for other projects/recipes using TAP tests
within oe/yocto?

Thanks,

Christian Babeux
EfficiOS Inc.
http://www.efficios.com