Re: [Patch]patch for some systemtap test cases failure

[William Cohen <wcohen at redhat dot com>]

Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
> "bibo,mao" <bibo.mao@intel.com> writes:
>
>
> > [...]
> > set stappath [exec which stap]
> > -set stpdpath [exec dirname $stappath]/../libexec/systemtap/stpd
> > +set stpdpath [exec dirname $stappath]/stpd
> > [...]
>
>
> The pass-5 tests are meant to run against an *installed* copy of
> systemtap (i.e., the result of a "make install"), not the parts as
> they happen to be arranged in the build tree.  In the former, the
> stpd binary will not be alongside stap.
>
> - FChE

What is the logic of making the pass-5 tests being run again *installed* 
copy of systemtap which the pass-[1234] tests are only run against the 
build tree? It seems logical to make it possible to be able to run that 
pass-[1234] tests against installed systemtap also.

-Will