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Re: Meta-expectations when testing
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 06:41:48PM +0000, Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Janis Johnson wrote:
> > The first sentence in test.html (generated from gcc/doc/install.texi) is:
> >
> > Before you install GCC, we encourage you to run the testsuites and to
> > compare your results with results from a similar configuration that have
> > been submitted to the @uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-testresults/,,
> > gcc-testresults mailing list}.
>
> Yes, but that is on the install page.
No, it's on the testing page, test.html, one of the 10 html files that
are generated from install.texi.
> > Would appending the following to that be sufficient?
> >
> > Some of these archived results are linked from the build status lists
> > at @uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/buildstat.html}, although not everyone who
> > reports a successful build runs the testsuites and submits the results.
>
> Not on the install page, for the reasons above.
Yes, but would it help at the beginning of test.html?
> > (Also, the maintainer of the build status lists sometimes doesn't have
> > time to go through the gcc-testresults archives after a release to
> > include new reports in the build status list as she ought to, and
> > welcomes mail pointing out the URLs of such reports, or patches to the
> > status list.)
>
> There seems to be no address for a person on these pages, only for
> groups of people {gcc,gnu} at gnu dot org, so I don't know who that is.
Sorry, that's me; I wouldn't imply that another volunteer is lazy.
Successful build reports to to gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, as could informaiton
about the URLs for test results for a released compiler. A patch to add
test result URSs to a build status list could go to
gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org dot
Janis