Messages in this thread | | | From | (Matthias Urlichs) | Subject | Re: Kernel Compilation Project | Date | 30 Nov 1998 08:16:29 +0100 |
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Riley Williams <rhw@bigfoot.com> writes: > Indeed, one way of making sure of that might be to add some sort > of "make randomconfig" option that goes through the options in > the same way that "make config" does, but chooses an answer at > random out of those available, rather than asking the user for the > desired choices. I can see how to do that for options such as > "bool", "tristate" or "dep_tristate", but how would such a system > deal with "int", "hex" or "choice", or other suchlike options? > Easy. For "choice" you randomly select one from the list. The others don't affect compilation and thus are irrelevant.
> > result to the jitterbug-page. This is not really distributed (the > > .config's are created on the client) but it is a start. It is
If it's truly random, that doesn't really matter; it just means that, on average, you need twice the time until you find a given problem.
If that means that people without a direct Internet connection can run the test suite, so much the better.
> > 2) Multi-platform support (is it possible to do a make config for > > a different architecture?) > Yes.
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