Re: Purpose of gen_tar

2023-10-25 Thread Shuah Khan
On 10/24/23 12:34, Bird, Tim wrote: -Original Message- From: Marcos Paulo de Souza ... Per the kselftests documentation[1], the gen_tar target is used to package the tests to run "on different systems". But what if the different system has different libraries/library versions? Woul

RE: Purpose of gen_tar

2023-10-24 Thread Bird, Tim
> -Original Message- > From: Marcos Paulo de Souza > ... > Per the kselftests documentation[1], the gen_tar target is used to package the > tests to run "on different systems". But what if the different system has > different libraries/library versions? Wouldn't it be a problem? > ...

Purpose of gen_tar

2023-10-24 Thread Marcos Paulo de Souza
Hi, while testing a new patch on the livepatch kselftests, I was testing the gen_tar target and I figured that we only copy the resulting binaries to the final tar file. Per the kselftests documentation[1], the gen_tar target is used to package the tests to run "on different systems". But what if