On Fri, Feb 14, 2025 at 03:50:31PM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Fri, Feb 14, 2025 at 09:56:44AM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > > > The tools/ directory never be installed into /var/lib/xfstests. If someone runs > > > xfstests after `make install`, all tests will be failed due to: > > > > > > Failed to find executable ./tools/run_setsid: No such file or directory > > > > Urrrk, yeah, I didn't realize that tools/ doesn't have a Makefile, > > therefore nothing from there get installed. Three options: > > > > 1) Add a tools/Makefile and an install target > > 2) Update the top level Makefile's install target to install the two > > scripts > > 3) Move tools/run_* to the top level and (2) > > Looking at tools, it seems like there are a couple of different > categories of scripts in the directory. Some are useful to people who > are developing fstests (mkgroupfile, nextid, mvtest); some are useful > when debugging a test failure (dm-logwrite-replay); some are useful > only to xfs developers (ag-wipe, db-walk). > > And to this we are adding utility programs that would be used during a > test execution. > > I wonder if we should split out these scripts into different > directories? I chatted with zorro on irc, who proposed doing (2) so he could finally merge all these fixes, and getting back to any other discussions later. I'll send the additional patch and minor tweaks to patches 14 and 15 shortly. --D > > - Ted > >
