I have some scripts that I use to perform build testing. That is, just
build as many configurations. This only verifies that no existing
builds are broken. It does not prove that a change is correct or that a
change will not break a build that actually uses the change. It would
take a much smarter test to do that then such a brute force test (when,
I don't advocate such dumb build testing).
But it would be nice to have it running as a 'cron' somewhere. It
currently builds 419 ARM configurations! plus several dozen sim, AVR,
and MIPS (PIC32 configurations). It would be nice if there were
available online some so that if someone wants to make a change to many
files like this in the future, we can at least be assured it won't break
builds.
The build test is based primarily on nuttx/tools/testbuild.sh which will
build a list of configurations. The configuration lists are elsewhere
at https://bitbucket.org/nuttx/tools/src/master/buildtest/ There are
also some bonehead scripts at the location that only work on my
machine. These basically just setup paths, and manage running
nuttx/tools/testbuild.sh. Those bonehead scripts are setup to work only
in my environment and would not work anywhere else without modification.
But if we could make this runnable online (perhaps via Jenkins?), then
we could avoid such extensive code breakage in the future.
Greg
- Build testing Gregory Nutt
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