Test plan for GCC 3.1?

Test plan for GCC 3.1?

[Craig Rodrigues]

Hi,

Thanks to everyone for contributing to the GCC 3.0.4 release,
especially to our hard working release manager, Mark Mitchell.

Now that the GCC 3.1 release is the next milestone for the
GCC project, I was wondering if there are going to be
more people stepping up to help with testing.

In the release criteria for GCC 3.1, several packages
are mentioned:
http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.1/criteria.html

When the GCC 3.0 release was done, there were packages
in the release criteria notes that would cause that 
compiler to ICE.  I'm thinking mainly of the Linux kernel.

It would be nice for the GCC 3.1 timeframe to actually
be able to compile the packages mentioned in the
release criteria notes.  I think we can only insure
this if we can encourage more people to participate in
testing.

-- 
Craig Rodrigues        
http://www.gis.net/~craigr    
rodrigc@attbi.com

Re: Test plan for GCC 3.1?

[Joe Buck]

> Thanks to everyone for contributing to the GCC 3.0.4 release,
> especially to our hard working release manager, Mark Mitchell.

Agreed.

> Now that the GCC 3.1 release is the next milestone for the
> GCC project, I was wondering if there are going to be
> more people stepping up to help with testing.
> 
> In the release criteria for GCC 3.1, several packages
> are mentioned:
> http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.1/criteria.html

That document seems to be a sorta-copy of the 3.0 criteria; the SC
is in the middle of discussing some changes (to the list of primary
platforms, etc).

Re: Test plan for GCC 3.1?

[Janis Johnson]

On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 05:15:34PM -0500, Craig Rodrigues wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Thanks to everyone for contributing to the GCC 3.0.4 release,
> especially to our hard working release manager, Mark Mitchell.
> 
> Now that the GCC 3.1 release is the next milestone for the
> GCC project, I was wondering if there are going to be
> more people stepping up to help with testing.
> 
> In the release criteria for GCC 3.1, several packages
> are mentioned:
> http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.1/criteria.html
> 
> When the GCC 3.0 release was done, there were packages
> in the release criteria notes that would cause that 
> compiler to ICE.  I'm thinking mainly of the Linux kernel.
> 
> It would be nice for the GCC 3.1 timeframe to actually
> be able to compile the packages mentioned in the
> release criteria notes.  I think we can only insure
> this if we can encourage more people to participate in
> testing.

We've got IA-64 systems at my site that need to be kept busy, so we're
planning to start building Linux kernels regularly with the latest 3.1
compiler.  If someone puts together a script to build and test other
packages we can run that as well.  The difficult part is analyzing new
failures.

Janis