Re: test results on many platforms

[Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>]

Hi Matthias,

> could you repeat these tests with libffi trunk?

No, I won't do that.

1) When I test something, I want to test the build infrastructure with it.
   Therefore I take a tarball with 'configure' file as input.

2) You have to understand that it takes time to run tests on dozens of
   machines, for 65 ABIs, and review the results.

I am not the only person who can run these tests:
  - The test suite is at a public place.[1]
  - Many of the platforms are available to anyone, through QEMU emulation.[2]

But if you provide a (release or prerelease) tarball and I see signs that
some of the bugs might be fixed, I might find the time to verify that these
bug are indeed fixed.

> could these new tests added to the libffi testsuite itself?

If you can accommodate a GPLed testsuite in the MIT/BSD-licensed libffi,
you can do that already now.

Otherwise, I can ask my collaborator if it would be ok with him to relicense
this testsuite under the MIT/BSD license used by libffi.

Bruno

[1] https://haible.de/bruno/gnu/libffi-testsuite.tar.gz
[2] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=libffcall.git;a=tree;f=porting-tools/emulation