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Re: ACATS & GCC testsuite
- From: Laurent Guerby <guerby at acm dot org>
- To: Richard Kenner <kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu>
- Cc: "gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: 28 Mar 2003 12:48:21 +0100
- Subject: Re: ACATS & GCC testsuite
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- References: <10303281144.AA28312@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu>
On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 12:44, Richard Kenner wrote:
> What are the arguments behind "best" here? Are the ACT releases built in
> maintainer-mode? Same question for binary distributors like Linux
> vendors?
>
> The issue isn't how releases are built, but what's required to verify that
> a patch doesn't break anything.
>
> That's why I by far prefer to have the testing being done after
> install, and not in build like it is done for GCC via DejaGNU now.
>
> No, builds seem right. I don't want to have to install a compiler in
> order to test it.
That's a developper argument, and it's not that strong:
testing C takes 43 minutes, Ada 44 minutes, and install is 1 minute
and less than 70 MB (that two years of daily builds
on a 40GB el cheapo disk, easy to spot regression then :).
All the bad things of in build testing can still happen,
and they do happen, see the recent make install breakage
on Ada.
These things are adding to the release bill, you might
not be concerned, but others certainly are.
--
Laurent Guerby <guerby at acm dot org>