Where does one go to ask about testsuites?

[Joe Buck]

On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 12:40:06PM -0400, Scott Robert Ladd wrote:
> Where do I ask questions about the testing process and the test suite?
> Yes, I have read http://gcc.gnu.org/install/test.html.
> 
> If, for example, I want to add a test to the suite, in reflection of a
> patch that I'm submitting, what is the policy? 

For bug fixes, it's common practice that a regression test be included
in the patch, or at least that a regression test is checked in at the same
time that the patch is applied.  I'm not sure what people have been doing
for new features.

> I'm also a bit confused about the required software to do the job right.
> For example, the gcc/contrib/test_summary script does not appear to be
> e-mailing anything, even though I have (I believe) all the appropriate
> software (deja gnu, mail, tcl, etc.) in place.

Are you piping the output of test_summary to a shell?  If you just run
test_summary it will not take any action that has side effects; its output
is a set of shell commands to mail results and rename test summary files.