[LTP] [PATCH v2 4/8] metadata: test.sh: Add support for building out-of-tree

[Andrea Cervesato]

Hi Cyril,

> Hi!
> > I would say no, it's not worth of that trouble. I would either live without
> > out-of-tree build or reevaluate what is blocking for switching to meson.
> > (I don't remember what Andrea found in his POC some years ago.)
> 
> I'm not 100% convinced that meson is the best way to go. It increases
> the build dependecies quite a lot from a autotools+make to python with
> several libraries.

I understand your point of view, but meson doesn't have dependencies
beside Python 3.10+ (pure python) and Ninja.

So we would switch from make + autotools to python + ninja. Still,
2 tools. The only difference is that make + autotools is messy and
legacy, while Meson is modern and well crafted.

The project I worked on is easily adaptable in the current LTP version:
https://github.com/acerv/ltp-core

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Andrea Cervesato
SUSE QE Automation Engineer Linux
andrea.cervesato@suse.com