[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] ci: enable unit tests under travis-ci

[Thomas Monjalon]

31/07/2019 22:54, Michael Santana Francisco:
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 10:50 AM Aaron Conole <aconole at redhat.com> wrote:
> > --- a/.ci/linux-build.sh
> > +++ b/.ci/linux-build.sh
> > @@ -22,3 +22,11 @@ fi
> >  OPTS="$OPTS --default-library=$DEF_LIB"
> >  meson build --werror -Dexamples=all $OPTS
> >  ninja -C build
> > +
> > +if [ "$RUN_TESTS" = "1" ]; then
> > +    # On the test build, also build the documentation, since it's expensive
> > +    # and we shouldn't need to build so much of it.
> > +    ninja -C build doc

I am not sure to understand the comment.
Do you mean you build the documentation only once,
which is when running tests?
Why it is not a new option similar as RUN_TESTS?

> > --- a/.travis.yml
> > +++ b/.travis.yml
> > @@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ env:
> >    - DEF_LIB="shared"
> >    - DEF_LIB="static" OPTS="-Denable_kmods=false"
> >    - DEF_LIB="shared" OPTS="-Denable_kmods=false"
> > +  - DEF_LIB="shared" RUN_TESTS=1
> I don't agree with this. This is redundant. Why not put RUN_TESTS=1 on
> an already exiting builds instead of adding two new builds like you
> are doing here?

I agree it is a strange logic.
Why not use an existing build to run the tests?