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Re: A Suggestion for Release Testing
- From: Joe Buck <Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot COM>
- To: Scott Robert Ladd <scott dot ladd at coyotegulch dot com>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 16:38:11 -0700
- Subject: Re: A Suggestion for Release Testing
- References: <42A8A9B9.3080601@coyotegulch.com>
On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 04:42:33PM -0400, Scott Robert Ladd wrote:
> 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?
With 4.0.0, compiling a complete GNU/Linux distribution reveals bugs in
GCC, but even more bugs in C++ software that is not valid C++. Assuming
we can get the distros to fix the latter set of problems, it would
certainly be good for release testing if we built complete distros, or
significant chunks thereof. It would be even better if this could be
coordinated with the people producing all that software; I think that (for
example) GCC and KDE could both do better about trying each others' early
code sooner than we do, and communicate any problems found.