[Fuego] LTP test split - was RE: Wiki docs for 1.3 release

[Daniel Sangorrin]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: fuego-bounces at lists.linuxfoundation.org [mailto:fuego-bounces at lists.linuxfoundation.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Sangorrin
> > My idea is to figure out a mechanism to share the build directory, so that
> > the host is not duplicating  1G of build space for each sub-test.  Any ideas
> > for this are appreciated.  We have sharing of build instructions and source
> > for netperf, OpenSSL and rt-tests, but I don't think we share the build
> > directories for these, when they are used by different tests (e.g
> > Benchmark.netperf vs. Functional.netperf).
> 
> I like this idea.
> 
> Tests sharing the same build folder could specify the build folder name
> with a special variable (BUILD_DIR="sharedbuildfolderforrttests"), then
> Fuego would also append the "-$ARCH" suffix and build there.
> These tests should be sharing the same "test_build" function. And the
> test_build function should build the binaries necessary running all tests.

Looking at the code, it looks that it could be as easy as overwritting JOB_BUILD_DIR
JOB_BUILD_DIR="${BUILD_DIR}-${PLATFORM}'
on the pre_build function.

Do you want me to try it with the rt-tests?

Thanks,
Daniel