Re: Conditional tests based on ${MACHINE} and ${MACHINE_ARCH}

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Sat, 1 Jan 2011, Julio Merino wrote:

> > Seems to me it would also be useful to have the inverse tests?
> >
> > require.not.{arch,machine} could skip the tests if any of the the listed
> > entries match?
> >
> > Seems that it would be much more likely to have one or two "skip test"
> > architectures than having a small list of "run test", so maintenance would
> > be simpler.
>
> It probably does make sense to have such a feature but, from memory,
> most of the ${MACHINE*} tests I have seen in the Makefiles are with
> ==, not with != (hence why require.* works as it does).
>
> For now, if you want to do this, you can do it programmatically.
> Something along the lines of:
>
> const char* machine = atf_tc_get_config_var("atf_machine");
> if (strcmp(machine, "foo") == 0)
>    atf_tc_skip("Can't run on foo machine");
> ... rest of the test case body ...

That's what I'm currently doing.


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