[ovs-discuss] Skip testsuite.patch application during compilation

[Gurucharan Shetty]

fwiw, I was able to reproduce the problem on Centos 6 with autoconf
2.63. I think it makes sense that we do the patching only on Windows.
I will try to come up with a patch.

On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 7:05 AM, Gurucharan Shetty <shettyg at nicira.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 2:53 AM, Stokes, Ian <ian.stokes at intel.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm attempting to compile OVS with DPDK on CentOS 6.6 and I am hitting an issue with testsuite.patch failing to apply during the last stages of compilation. I can see that the structure of the code in ovs/tests/testsuite itself is very different to what testsuite.patch expects (hence why it fails).
>
> Do you see the same problem while compiling OVS without dpdk on
> Centos6.6? The patch was added a couple of months ago and I have not
> seen any build failures because of that either in Windows or Linux.
> The patch was added thinking that the build does not fail anywhere.
> But it looks like it does and I wonder whether it is because of a
> different autoconf version or something along those lines? Do see the
> failures on Ubuntu?
>
>>
>> Looking at first few lines of code below from testsuite.patch it seems this patch is only relevant if running in a windows environment
> That is true.