Re: [Xen-devel] [OSSTEST PATCH RFC] do not install xend for xl tests

[Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ian Campbell writes ("[OSSTEST PATCH RFC] do not install xend for xl tests"):
> We need to check that xl works correctly when xend is not even installed (in
> case we are subtly relying on some file which xend installs).
> 
> Therefore for xen 4.4 onwards never build xend in the default build job and
> instead create two new build jobs (for i386 and amd64) with xend enabled.
> Update the tests to use the correct xenbuildjob.
> 
> Tested only to the extent of running make-flight for
> xen-4.{2,3,4}-testing and xen-unstable and observing that the jobs
> do not differ for 4.2 and 4.3 and the 4.4 and unstable have gained
> the new build-{i386,and64}-xend jobs and that the relevant tests
> have switched their xenbuildjob runvar to have the suffix.

Can we solve this problem by having a variant of "make install" which
provides a differentiated output ?  That way we could use the same
build, split into several outputs.

Ian.

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