Re: Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit: The future of The GNU C Library.

[Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>]

On Wednesday 28 March 2012 05:13:42 Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Mar 2012, Jeff Law wrote:
> > On 03/27/2012 09:23 PM, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
> > > On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 8:33 AM, Carlos O'Donell
> > > 
> > > <carlos@systemhalted.org>  wrote:
> > > > Anything goes, I'm looking to create a grab-bag of ideas from the
> > > 
> > > > community including such crazy things as:
> > > How about a dejagnu (or equivalent) testsuite? If dejagnu is ok, I can
> > > work on porting the current test cases into something similar to
> > > gcc/gdb.
> > 
> > dejagnu is dreadful; there's got to be a better designed & implemented
> > testing harness we can use.  Improving testing would be a big step
> > forward, but not with dejagnu, please.
> 
> DejaGnu, properly used, brings you remote-target, remote-host and
> installed-toolchain testing for free.  Remote-host (running compilers
> remotely) isn't particularly interesting for glibc, but the others are -
> although remote-target cases for glibc are very limited (testing on a
> Unix-like system over SSH) which simplifies supporting things in different
> systems.
> 
> If someone wants to work on the testsuite infrastructure I'd advise
> several smaller steps before actually setting up any general test harness.
> In particular:

whatever happened to qmtest ?
-mike

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