Re: Meta-expectations when testing

[Janis Johnson <janis187@us.ibm.com>]

On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 06:41:48PM +0000, Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Janis Johnson wrote:
> > The first sentence in test.html (generated from gcc/doc/install.texi) is:
> >
> >   Before you install GCC, we encourage you to run the testsuites and to
> >   compare your results with results from a similar configuration that have
> >   been submitted to the @uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-testresults/,,
> >   gcc-testresults mailing list}.
> 
> Yes, but that is on the install page.

No, it's on the testing page, test.html, one of the 10 html files that
are generated from install.texi.

> > Would appending the following to that be sufficient?
> >
> >   Some of these archived results are linked from the build status lists
> >   at @uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/buildstat.html}, although not everyone who
> >   reports a successful build runs the testsuites and submits the results.
> 
> Not on the install page, for the reasons above.

Yes, but would it help at the beginning of test.html?
 
> > (Also, the maintainer of the build status lists sometimes doesn't have
> > time to go through the gcc-testresults archives after a release to
> > include new reports in the build status list as she ought to, and
> > welcomes mail pointing out the URLs of such reports, or patches to the
> > status list.)
> 
> There seems to be no address for a person on these pages, only for
> groups of people {gcc,gnu}@gnu.org, so I don't know who that is.

Sorry, that's me; I wouldn't imply that another volunteer is lazy.

Successful build reports to to gcc@gcc.gnu.org, as could informaiton
about the URLs for test results for a released compiler.  A patch to add
test result URSs to a build status list could go to
gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org.

Janis