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A Suggestion for Release Testing
- From: Scott Robert Ladd <scott dot ladd at coyotegulch dot com>
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2005 16:42:33 -0400
- Subject: A Suggestion for Release Testing
Given the recent problems with the 4.0.0 release and major packages like
KDE and the kernel, has anyone considered testing releases by completely
compiling a Linux system?
As one of those infamous "Gentoo users", I don't think it would be at
all difficult to build an automated test harness, running in a chroot,
that would rebuild a "standard" Linux install with a pending release of
GCC. The suite of applications would need to be relatively tight; I'd
suggest Linux, Gnome, KDE, their major appliations, and perhaps OpenOffice.
The downside is that the compile would take quite a while; even for my
dual Opteron, full builds take more than a day. On the other hand, this
might catch some problems before release.
I'm willing to implement this, if it's deemed useful.
..Scott