Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/6] First part of autoconfy series: cleanup tests/

[Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>]

On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 15:38:34 +0200
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:

> On 10/22/2010 03:26 PM, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
> > On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 10:18:34 +0200
> > Paolo Bonzini<pbonzini@redhat.com>  wrote:
> >
> >> This is a small start from the autoconfy configure series.  Actually,
> >> this part is almost completely new.  It cleans up the tests Makefile
> >> so that the i386-linux-user testsuite's Makefile targets are more
> >> easily extensible and can work wherever a compiler for i386 is
> >> installed.  In the future this could be extended to ARM and
> >> MIPS targets.
> >
> > This is unrelated to this series, but something that would be very good to
> > have would be to move all check- programs to tests/ (or check/) and make them
> > part of 'make test' or introduce a new 'make check'.
> 
> Right, I thought about that too.  The main hurdle is that: 1) right now 
> almost every test in "make test" is failing;

Yeah, just saw that.

> 2) the testsuite run by 
> "make test" is very noisy, does not create logs, etc.  If we could use 
> autotest... :)
> 
> We could also have check-i386, check-qmp, etc. and check would simply 
> call all of them.

That would be perfect, I think. I mean, if we could stick only to check
to do all our unit-testing, then it would be easier to setup autotest
around it.

But we'll have to port current tests to it, of course.