oe-selftest: Allow overriding the build directory used for tests

This may be useful if the parent directory of the original builddir is
not writable, on a lower performance drive, etc.

(From OE-Core rev: 27cec9c111bca84554d94eeb71fb3d3fe9a77481)

Signed-off-by: Paul Barker <pbarker@konsulko.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
(cherry picked from commit dab719e5f1964fd48e9a35e6b9db1508b5414540)
Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/context.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/context.py
index 48ec5d419c..17f2a0cf6b 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/context.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/context.py
@@ -22,18 +22,22 @@ from oeqa.core.exception import OEQAPreRun, OEQATestNotFound
 from oeqa.utils.commands import runCmd, get_bb_vars, get_test_layer
 
 class OESelftestTestContext(OETestContext):
-    def __init__(self, td=None, logger=None, machines=None, config_paths=None):
+    def __init__(self, td=None, logger=None, machines=None, config_paths=None, newbuilddir=None):
         super(OESelftestTestContext, self).__init__(td, logger)
 
         self.machines = machines
         self.custommachine = None
         self.config_paths = config_paths
+        self.newbuilddir = newbuilddir
 
     def setup_builddir(self, suffix, selftestdir, suite):
         builddir = os.environ['BUILDDIR']
         if not selftestdir:
             selftestdir = get_test_layer()
-        newbuilddir = builddir + suffix
+        if self.newbuilddir:
+            newbuilddir = os.path.join(self.newbuilddir, 'build' + suffix)
+        else:
+            newbuilddir = builddir + suffix
         newselftestdir = newbuilddir + "/meta-selftest"
 
         if os.path.exists(newbuilddir):
@@ -133,6 +137,7 @@ class OESelftestTestContextExecutor(OETestContextExecutor):
                 action='append', default=None,
                 help='Exclude all (unhidden) tests that match any of the specified tag(s). (exclude applies before select)')
 
+        parser.add_argument('-B', '--newbuilddir', help='New build directory to use for tests.')
         parser.set_defaults(func=self.run)
 
     def _get_available_machines(self):
@@ -187,6 +192,7 @@ class OESelftestTestContextExecutor(OETestContextExecutor):
         self.tc_kwargs['init']['config_paths']['builddir'] = builddir
         self.tc_kwargs['init']['config_paths']['localconf'] = os.path.join(builddir, "conf/local.conf")
         self.tc_kwargs['init']['config_paths']['bblayers'] = os.path.join(builddir, "conf/bblayers.conf")
+        self.tc_kwargs['init']['newbuilddir'] = args.newbuilddir
 
         def tag_filter(tags):
             if args.exclude_tags: