Re: glibc testsuite improvement
Hi Tomas,
On Monday, August 27, 2012 14:28:50 Tomas Dohnalek wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have started to work on automation of comparing outputs from glibc
> testsuite, because of pointless manual work when new version arrives
> and we want to do as much as possible in upstream. In the beginning
> of the improvement process, we want to add simple one-line PASS/FAIL
> output for each test and also apart from usual `make check` add `make
> installcheck` rule for testing system binaries.
Sounds fine to me.
> I guess, that you are having the same difficulties so I want to ask,
> how do you deal with current state? Have you made any internal tool
> for comparing results or are you doing it manually?
For openSUSE I have disabled some tests in the testsuite - and let the
testsuite run for others and check that it passes. But with different
architectures etc. it's not an easy task.
> Hopefully I will soon send first initial patch to upstream, but first
> I want to know that I am not exploring the wheel and I want to know
> your opinions/objections concerning this intention.
I have no better idea.
Thanks for looking into this!
Andreas
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