Re: [PATCH 2/2] kunit: add tips to clean source tree to build help message

[Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>]

On 4/29/25 21:54, David Gow wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Apr 2025 at 06:27, Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>>
>> Add tips to clean source tree to build help message. When user run
>> kunit.py after building another kernel for ARCH=foo, it is necessary
>> to run 'make ARCH=foo mrproper' to remove all build artifacts generated
>> during the build. In such cases, kunit build could fail.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
>> ---
> 
> Thanks for doing this.
> 
> This looks good to me, save for the issue below.
> 
> I do wonder whether there's a more general fix we can do in the
> makefiles, but I'm not sure how that'd have to work. Maybe by storing
> the architecture used somewhere and amending the error based on that,
> or hacking around the specific x86_64/UML incompatibilities. But let's
> go ahead with this fix regardless.

I agree the right fix is to see if kunit.py can suggest the right arch
to clean. I will take a look at that.

As you said, it is good to have this documented in this series.

> 
> Cheers,
> -- David
> 
>>   tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py | 2 +-
>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py b/tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py
>> index 7f9ae55fd6d5..db86a396ed33 100755
>> --- a/tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py
>> +++ b/tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py
>> @@ -583,7 +583,7 @@ def main(argv: Sequence[str]) -> None:
>>                                                  'the options in .kunitconfig')
>>          add_common_opts(config_parser)
>>
>> -       build_parser = subparser.add_parser('build', help='Builds a kernel with KUnit tests')
>> +       build_parser = subparser.add_parser('build', help='Builds a kernel with KUnit tests. Successful build depends on a clean source tree. Run mrproper to clean generated artifcats for prior ARCH=foo kernel build. Run 'make ARCH=foo mrproper')
> 
> Because this string is enclosed by single quotes, the 'make ARCH=foo
> mrproper' is not part of the string (and there's a missing terminating
> quote as well).
> 
> Maybe change help= to use double quotes, and add the missing one? Or
> use double quotes or backticks for the make example?
> 
> 
>>          add_common_opts(build_parser)
>>          add_build_opts(build_parser)

Thanks for the pointers. I will go look at those to make this
help message coded better,

thanks,
-- Shuah