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Re: Chroot testsuite
- From: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at redhat dot com>
- To: Ryan Arnold <ryan dot arnold at linaro dot org>
- Cc: OndÅej BÃlka <neleai at seznam dot cz>, Will Newton <will dot newton at linaro dot org>, GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 23:28:37 -0500
- Subject: Re: Chroot testsuite
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On 12/19/2013 10:04 PM, Ryan Arnold wrote:
>> I agree.
>>
>> We need some kind of VM-based or chroot-based testing.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Carlos.
>
> I'll actually be working on a chroot based testsuite for glibc for my
> work at Linaro starting in January. I should have a preliminary
> design I can put forward in a few weeks for comment.
>
> The first pass might not be as full featured as some people might want.
Please do not let that stop you. Full featured is not a required
bullet point on any design I've been thinking about. Simply
adding chroot based testing would allow us to begin adding
tests for ldconfig, networking, the resolver etc. etc.
Cheers,
Carlos.