Re: coreutils CI

[Pádraig Brady]

On 11/05/2023 07:58, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> On 5/9/23 20:57, Bruno Haible wrote:
> > Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> > > I noticed the issue because the following "very-expensive" tests failed
> > > (which succeeded with coreutils-9.3):
> > >
> > >      FAIL: tests/rm/ext3-perf
> > >      FAIL: tests/rm/many-dir-entries-vs-OOM
> >
> > Did you notice these failures by chance, or do you run coreutils continuous
> > integration on a fixed schedule?
>
> I regularly run the 'check-very-expensive' tests on my local clone.
>
> > More generally, for which systems are coreutils continuous integrations being
> > run regularly? For which systems would it be useful to have it?
> >
> > https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/ references
> > https://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/gnu/coreutils-master but it seems that this
> > CI stopped working in 2021.
>
> I know the Hydra tests have stopped working, but some (small) attempts to get
> support to get it working again failed.
>
> @Padraig: you're at least doing some pre-release tests on several platforms,
> but that's no real CI, is it?

Right.
No real CI at present.
It would be good though, directly for coreutils
and indirectly for gnulib.

I think I'll have a look at setting up
some automated testing on the GCC compile farm.

cheers,
Pádraig