Re: iotests and python dependencies

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 5/5/22 10:51, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> If not, I guess it would be enough if iotests just checks that the venv
> exists and all of the dependencies are there in the right version and
> error out if not, telling the user to run 'make check-venv'.
>
> Or actually, it could just unconditionally run 'make check-venv' by
> itself, which is probably easier to implement than checking the
> dependencies and more convenient for the user, too.

Note that you would still have to add a 'check-block: check-venv' 
dependency in the Makefile, otherwise two "instances" of check-venv 
could run in parallel.

One small complication is that on BSD systems the binary is actually 
called "gmake", so you'd have to pass the variable somehow

Paolo