Hello Nelson, > I already thought about it and I will write a Python program really > soon. I would like to start with something that is not that smart but > that can be very useful. That is, a script that allows you to try all > the kernel configuration files that live in a specific directory. For > each configuration the result of the program will be: the name of the > config. file, status of the build and the name of a file with all the > compilation messages. The status can be either OK, FAILED, or TIMEOUT. > Timeout means that some time elapsed with no compiler activity and > with no built kernel (Actuallly this should only happen because of a > bug in this program or in GCC).
maybe this site is interesting for you: http://kerncomp.sourceforge.net/ It's a collection to scripts for performing automated tests on the linux kernel and some of them are also performing build tests using random/stored configurations. Hope this helps!? Sven
