[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] devtools: fix ninja break under default DESTDIR path

[Juraj Linkeš]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phil Yang <Phil.Yang at arm.com>
> Sent: Sunday, September 20, 2020 11:32 AM
> To: Juraj Linkeš <juraj.linkes at pantheon.tech>; david.marchand at redhat.com;
> dev at dpdk.org
> Cc: Honnappa Nagarahalli <Honnappa.Nagarahalli at arm.com>; Ruifeng Wang
> <Ruifeng.Wang at arm.com>; nd <nd at arm.com>; nd <nd at arm.com>
> Subject: RE: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] devtools: fix ninja break under default DESTDIR
> path
> 
> Juraj Linkeš <juraj.linkes at pantheon.tech> writes:
> 
> > > Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] devtools: fix ninja break under default
> > DESTDIR
> > > path
> > >
> > > If DPDK_ABI_REF_DIR is not set, the default DESTDIR is a relative path.
> > > This will break ninja in the ABI check test.
> > >
> >
> > The commit message is not very clear. The problem is we're specifying
> > ninja's destination dir in variable DESTDIR when invoking ninja
> > install. If the DESTDIR is not an absolute path, ninja complains (when
> > invoking install). This isn't
> Yes, this defect is due to 'ninja install' not happy with the relative path.
> Will reword the commit message in the next version.
> 
> > directly related to DPDK_ABI_REF_DIR, it's more a problem with how we
> > call install_target.
> If we have set 'DPDK_ABI_REF_DIR' before the test, 'abiref' should be an
> absolute path, but the default 'abiref' value is a relative path.
> So should we keep them align?
> 
> >
> > > Fixes: 777014e56d07 ("devtools: add ABI checks")
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Phil Yang <phil.yang at arm.com>
> > > ---
> > >  devtools/test-meson-builds.sh | 2 +-
> > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/devtools/test-meson-builds.sh b/devtools/test-meson-
> > builds.sh index
> > > a87de63..2bfcaca 100755
> > > --- a/devtools/test-meson-builds.sh
> > > +++ b/devtools/test-meson-builds.sh
> > > @@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ build () # <directory> <target compiler | cross
> > > file> <meson options>
> > >  	config $srcdir $builds_dir/$targetdir $cross --werror $*
> > >  	compile $builds_dir/$targetdir
> > >  	if [ -n "$DPDK_ABI_REF_VERSION" ]; then
> > > -		abirefdir=${DPDK_ABI_REF_DIR:-
> > > reference}/$DPDK_ABI_REF_VERSION
> > > +		abirefdir=${DPDK_ABI_REF_DIR:-
> > > $(pwd)/reference}/$DPDK_ABI_REF_VERSION
> > >  		if [ ! -d $abirefdir/$targetdir ]; then
> > >  			# clone current sources
> > >  			if [ ! -d $abirefdir/src ]; then
> > > --
> > > 2.7.4
> > >
> >
> > install_target on line 160 is called improperly. Let's fix it so that
> > it matches line
> > 169:
> > install_target $abirefdir/build $(readlink -f $abirefdir/$targetdir)
> 
> If so we need to call readlink at line #161 as well as it does at line #171.
> 
> >
> > This way we don't need to add $(pwd).
> 
> If you don't prefer $(pwd), we can do it like this:
> abirefdir=$(readlink -f ${DPDK_ABI_REF_DIR:-
> reference}/$DPDK_ABI_REF_VERSION)
> 

I mostly wanted the code to be consistent and since readlink was already in the code I pointed that out. I think your last proposal is the best of the two worlds, but let's change the code everywhere (i.e. lines 170-174 as well).

> Thanks,
> Phil
> 
>