[dpdk-dev] [RFC 4/4] app/test: support resources archived by tar

[Jan Viktorin]

On Thu, 5 May 2016 14:33:01 +0100
Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 03:11:36PM +0200, Jan Viktorin wrote:
> > When needing a more complex resource (a file hierarchy), packing every single
> > file as a single resource would be very ineffective. For that purpose, it is
> > possible to pack the files into a tar archive, extract it before test from the
> > resource and finally clean up all the created files.
> > 
> > This patch introduces functions resource_untar and resource_rm_by_tar to
> > perform those tasks. An example of using those functions is included as a test.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jan Viktorin <viktorin at rehivetech.com>  
> We might want to make this configurable on/off at build time, since it adds a new
> dependency for building dpdk - libarchive-devel.

This is true. Unfortunately...

Is it a problem to introduce such dependency into the test app?
Would it be help to use another similar (more spread) library (zlib)?

Jan

> 
> /Bruce



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