Keith M Wesolowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 08:37:06PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote:
>
> > If you install SchilliX on a previously empty box, you get a useable
> > system. If you allow me to remove all files that are not part of
> > OpenSolaris, it will turn your box into a door stopper.
>
> Are you claiming that it needs to be possible to test OpenSolaris in
> isolation? Test design requires you to understand what you're
> testing; if you've made no changes to something and it's not used in
> the course of running your tests, there's no reason to be concerned
> with it. To be more concrete, if you're worried that replacing libm
> might affect the outcome of the tests you are running against your
> changes to ls, you need to evaluate whether ls uses libm and whether
I know the problems and this is why I am repeatedly warning about what
needs to be tested.
Note that is is not my free will to create deviations from Sun Solaris.
I am forced to do so in order to get a working OS at all.
I am testing whether my binaries created on SchilliX will run on
Sun Solaris, I epect that if Sun does adjacent tests with Sun binaries
on SchilliX.
> your changes might have affected the way it is used. If it's not
> used, or there's no conceivable way your changes to ls might have
> affected the way ls uses libm's interfaces, there's no reason to
> include libm as a variable in your test plan for ls. Presumably, you
> have verified already by use of a focused test suite that SchilliX's
> libm is 100% compatible with Solaris's anyway, so which is installed
> on the test system would not normally be of interest when testing ls.
> This seems like common sense; the alternative would be enormous test
> matrices for even the most trivial changes.
It is currently impossible to create a 100% Sun compatible libm.
Jörg
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