Re: [PATCH kvm-next V11 7/7] KVM: guest_memfd: selftests: Add tests for mmap and NUMA policy support

On 26.09.25 01:04, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 25, 2025 at 02:35:19PM -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
>>>   LDLIBS += -ldl
>>> +LDLIBS += -lnuma
>>
>> Hrm, this is going to be very annoying.  I don't have libnuma-dev installed on
>> any of my <too many> systems, and I doubt I'm alone.  Installing the package is
>> trivial, but I'm a little wary of foisting that requirement on all KVM developers
>> and build bots.
> 
> Wouldn't it be great if the kselftest build system used something like
> meson and could work around these little issues without breaking the
> whole build ? :(
> 
> Does anyone else think this?
> 
> Every time I try to build kselftsts I just ignore all the errors the
> fly by because the one bit I wanted did build properly anyhow.

When I'm in a hurry I even do the same within mm selftests.

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Cheers

David / dhildenb