This set of patches makes small changes to the build system to allow easy integration of tests not included in the repository. To this end, it adds a parameter to the configuration script `--ext-dir=DIR` which will instruct the build system to include the Makefile in DIR/Makefile. The external Makefile can then add extra tests, link object files and modify/extend flags. In addition, to demonstrate how we can use this functionality, a README file explains how to use litmus7 to generate the C code for litmus tests and link with kvm-unit-tests to produce flat files. Note that currently, litmus7 produces its own independent Makefile as an intermediate step. Once this set of changes is committed, litmus7 will be modifed to make use hook to specify external tests and leverage the build system to build the external tests (https://github.com/relokin/herdtools7/commit/8f23eb39d25931c2c34f4effa096df58547a3bb4). Nikos Nikoleris (3): arm/arm64: Avoid wildcard in the arm_clean recipe of the Makefile arm/arm64: Add a way to specify an external directory with tests README: Add a guide of how to run tests with litmus7 configure | 7 +++ arm/Makefile.common | 11 +++- README.litmus7.md | 125 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 3 files changed, 141 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) create mode 100644 README.litmus7.md -- 2.25.1
