Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/03/03/13:54:49
On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 01:40:26PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>1) Starting now I'm introducing a new policy regarding Cygwin list
> acronyms: If the acronym used is known, I'll add it to the OLOCA (and
> there is no need to expand it). If it's a newly invented one, I won't
> add it to the OLOCA until I see it also used by someone else at least
> once. This gratuitous invention of acronyms has got to stop (mostly
> note to self, that one)! :-)
>2) The absense of copyright assignment does not prevent you from checking
> out the winsup/tests directory (or, in fact, any cygwin cvs repository)
> anonymously (<http://cygwin.com/cvs.html>). There is no need for a
> separate package...
>3) I believe (and please correct me if I'm wrong) that the testsuite is
> run after most commits, and regressions are noticed right away, so your
> proposal would be kind of redundant. Besides, the testsuite doesn't
> catch everything, and most reports on the list were not related to the
> testsuite, but to real world applications.
>
>Mean enough? ;-)
Perfectly. These were almost all of the points I was going to make
before I cleverly decided to see if someone had already made them.
A few extra observations:
You can't just run the testsuite on the installed version of cygwin. It
is meant to be run against winsup/new-cygwin1.dll. So how do you work around
that? Extract the source into some directory, create a build directory, configure
it, and then
cd i686-pc-cygwin/winsup
cp /bin/cygwin1.dll cygwin/new-cygwin1.dll
cp -p /lib/libcygwin.a cygwin/new-libcygwin.a
cp -p /lib/libcygwin.a cygwin/libcygwin.a
cd testsuite
make check
However, as was pointed out, I, and others are already running the test suite.
I want to get real world testing since the test suite doesn't test everything.
cgf
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