[dpdk-dev] [RFC 17.05] test: move tests to separate folder

Ferruh Yigit ferruh.yigit at intel.com
Wed Feb 15 11:06:33 CET 2017


On 2/15/2017 2:11 AM, Yuanhan Liu wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 05:30:14PM +0000, Richardson, Bruce wrote:
>> Just to be awkward :-), one last question: Why separate building and running
>> the tests? My suggestion would be to have "make test" both build and run the
>> tests. If there is no work to do in building them, then the time cost of the
>> extra empty build is negligible compared to the time taken to actually run
>> the tests.
> 
> +1
> 

Makes sense. I will update as:

"make test" -> compile and run test
"make test_build" -> only compile test

(newly added "make test_run" will go away)

thanks,
ferruh

> 	--yliu
> 
>> If we really want to build the tests without running them I'd
>> suggest "build_test" target instead. This keeps "make test" pretty much as
>> it was before.
>>
>> /Bruce



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