Re: cvs head has lots of test failures

[Mark Wielaard <mark at klomp dot org>]

On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 09:06 -0400, Elena Zannoni wrote:
> Mark Wielaard writes:
>  > 
>  > We really need an autobuilder to catch such things early.
> 
> We really need people to run make check before checking stuff in.
> Please folks be considerate to your fellow coders...

Unfortunately make check is not always very reliable. We are working on
some very different platforms. It can be that you are not seeing
failures on your platform, but others do see them on theirs. And it
seems make check is often randomly broken :{ Making it hard to see if
some failure was already there or that it was introduced by your new
code. I would love to have a zero make check fails checkin policy.

Although the fact that some tests take more than half an hour to run
make that a little hard in practise.
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/frysk/2006-q3/msg00160.html

Having an autobuilder on some canonical platform with public test
results would make comparing results between days/checkins easier at
least.

Cheers,

Mark