On Thu, May 05, 2016 at 07:05:40PM +0200, Jan Viktorin wrote: > 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)? > Not sure it would make much difference, to be honest. It all depends on what -devel packages are installed by default on most distros when you install the development tools sets. I'm not concerned too much either way, but if we add in a new dependency like this, we should also take the opportunity to turn on pcap PMD by default too and make libpcap-devel a dependency.
/Bruce
