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* adding make check-libctf to binutils trybot?
@ 2024-04-18 16:32 Nick Alcock
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From: Nick Alcock @ 2024-04-18 16:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
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I'm getting back to libctf development again (some fairly big things
coming, I hope), so I've just tried the trybots for the first time.

First impressions: really useful to be able to test on piles of arches
without needing to set up dead slow QEMU emulations of them myself;
might be even more useful if FAILs/ERRORs were explicitly filtered into
their own category rather than carefully filtering out warnings (which
are usually useless junk from dejagnu), while you have to explicitly
download the stdio output to figure out which testsuite any failures
actually happened in...

... but the check-libctf tests are not run at all, which means the only
testing I get of libctf is of its interoperation with ld, which is only
about half the codebase and about as much of the API surface (counting
uses internal to libctf itself).

So... could make check-libctf be added to the stuff routinely run when
binutils try-builds are done? I'd write a patch but I'm not honestly
sure where the repo is or anything :) it's pretty fast (much faster than
make check-ld, about as fast as the gas tests) and doesn't have spurious
failures anywhere that I know of. (And if there are failures, I'll fix
them.)

Thanks!

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