Re: crosstool patching, regression testing

[Dan Kegel <dank at kegel dot com>]

Dan Kegel wrote:
> Wouter van Heyst wrote:
> > I've done some regression testing, and done mkjail for a native setup,
> > but I haven't followed through with doing it for a cross environment.
> > Now that our board is running ok, I can set it up with more ease I
> > guess. Do you have any tips for regression testing a crosstoolchain, or
> > should the following three howtos get me going?
> >
> >     http://www.kegel.com/crosstool/current/doc/crosstool-howto.html
> >     http://www.kegel.com/crosstool/current/doc/chroot-login-howto.html
> >     http://www.kegel.com/crosstool/current/doc/dejagnu-remote-howto.html
>
> Those three howtos are all I have right now.  I intend to
> improve them, but don't have time at the moment.
> See also demo-runtest.sh, which shows how to run a particular
> unit test (helpful if you're trying to iterate quickly while
> testing a fix).  See also mkcommon.sh, which builds a bugfixed
> copy of expect (I'll move that bit into mkdejagnu.sh eventually);
> the bug it fixes causes occasional spurious test failures
> (about 0.1% of tests fail more or less repeatably without this fix).

Oh, one other thing: in contrib/testsetup, there are some scripts
I use to set up test systems.  See the README there.
The scripts need some editing; they were specific to the sh4
system I was testing at the time.
- Dan

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