Re: iotests and python dependencies

[John Snow]

On Thu, May 5, 2022 at 5:28 AM Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>

Dumb question: where would I express this dependency? I don't know
where the top-level "check-block" recipe gets defined.

--js