[OE-core] [PATCH] diffutils/run-ptest: support to run at arbitrary path

[Hongxu Jia]

On 6/13/19 6:07 PM, Burton, Ross wrote:
> Are you going to fix all of the other recipes?  Very few recipes let
> you run the tests from an arbitrary directory, and assume that you're
> in the test directory already.

Only focus on this recipe, my original task is to resolve 2. Fix 
large-subopt.in1 not found,

and 1 is my deeper improvement. I know most of ptest require to run in 
specific dir

//Hongxu


> Ross
>
> On Thu, 13 Jun 2019 at 09:08, Hongxu Jia <hongxu.jia at windriver.com> wrote:
>> 1. Run run-ptest at arbitrary path
>>
>> 2. Fix large-subopt.in1 not found
>> ...
>> |diff: /lib32-diffutils/3.7-r0/build/../diffutils-3.7/tests/large-subopt.in1:
>> No such file or directory
>> |diff: /lib32-diffutils/3.7-r0/build/../diffutils-3.7/tests/large-subopt.in2:
>> No such file or directory
>> ...
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Hongxu Jia <hongxu.jia at windriver.com>
>> ---
>>   meta/recipes-extended/diffutils/diffutils/run-ptest | 3 ++-
>>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/diffutils/diffutils/run-ptest b/meta/recipes-extended/diffutils/diffutils/run-ptest
>> index 695c5e8a7b..ad467d9bd0 100644
>> --- a/meta/recipes-extended/diffutils/diffutils/run-ptest
>> +++ b/meta/recipes-extended/diffutils/diffutils/run-ptest
>> @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
>>   #!/bin/sh
>>
>> -make -C tests check-TESTS
>> +abs_ptestdir=`echo "$(cd "$(dirname "$0")"; pwd)"`
>> +make -C $abs_ptestdir/tests check-TESTS abs_top_srcdir="$abs_ptestdir"
>> --
>> 2.17.1
>>
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