From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755248Ab0BBIaZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Feb 2010 03:30:25 -0500 Received: from mail-px0-f182.google.com ([209.85.216.182]:50086 "EHLO mail-px0-f182.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750736Ab0BBIaX convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Feb 2010 03:30:23 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=wAW3KqwFT1DJcys7XAD+Ee6HUxKeLqCfR2otFHwLAel5Q8G6CkGiF0X1G9kqrZSK+n 1J9bJFAzbYyLntuGBFD1pmhhgoRVegVofX5XAlX65I9gK5qSKnI0SntKr0KqNc2A0xXh V1sB/5SAauE+mJveB61+niEJOAT0ImT2YZqbk= MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 00:30:23 -0800 Message-ID: <364299f41002020030u527224adsb87f33ba4119551c@mail.gmail.com> Subject: [IMPORTANT] Clean target regression [was Re: [ANNOUNCE] The Linux Test Project has been released for JANUARY 2010] From: Garrett Cooper To: subrata@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: ltp-list , linux-kernel , Mike Frysinger , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Rishikesh K Rajak Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 8:01 AM, Garrett Cooper wrote: > On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 2:57 AM, Subrata Modak > wrote: >> Hi, >> >> The Linux Test Project test suite has been released for the month of >> JANUARY 2010. Please see ltp/INSTALL file carefully, as, there has >> been multiple changes for building/installing the test suite after the >> recent changes in Makefile infrastructure. >> >> The latest version of the test-suite contains 3000+ tests for the Linux >> OS and can be found at: >> http://ltp.sourceforge.net/, >> Latest happenings in LTP can also be found at: >> http://ltp.sourceforge.net/wiki/, >> http://ltp.sourceforge.net/wikiArchives.php, and, >> IRC: irc.freenode.org #ltp. >> >> Our web site also contains other information such as: >> - A Linux test tools matrix >> - Technical papers >> - How To's on Linux testing >> - Code coverage analysis tool. >> >> We would encourage the community to post results to >> ltp-results@lists.sf.net, >> patches, new tests, bugs or comments/questions to ltp-list@lists.sf.net, >> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=3382&atid=103382 (for >> New Bug(s)), >> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=3382&atid=303382 (for >> New Patch(s)), >> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=3382&atid=353382 (for >> New Feature Request(s)) >> >> **Note: Some pending patches will be checked in for next monthś release. > >    For those who have been holding off on upgrading since the Make > infrastructure revision was done back in October, I highly suggest > that they evaluate this release as a several issues have been > resolved, i.e. selinux-testsuite being fixed to meet the make > infrastructure changes (there's just a minor issue that's been > reported on RHEL 5.4 with the policy files -- Stephen should be > working with Mitani-san to resolve the issue), and a few autoconf > related items have been resolved. Furthermore, make 3.80 support has > been integrated into the project so folks can once again use make 3.80 > when building LTP. > All the best, NOTE -- please comment out the following three lines in the top-level Makefile -- not doing so will result in you potentially obliterating all of the writable files on your build target, as this will effectively perform an rm -Rf / under certain conditions. ifeq ($(filter $(BUILD_TREE_STATE),$(BUILD_TREE_SRCDIR_INSTALL) $(BUILD_TREE_UNCONFIGURED)),) CLEAN_TARGETS += clean_install_dir endif I deeply apologize for the inconvenience; I'm working on rectifying the issue ASAP and will email again once it's resolved; I will add a regression test for this ASAP in the build test scripts I've recently authored so this doesn't happen again. Thanks, -Garrett