Hi, On 2014-11-06 08:10, Rainer Gerhards wrote: >> Well, you can run the mysql test suite against any mysql server. It is >> independent from source. So that's not the best example at all... > > Don't you then need root (or similar) credentials to do some very delicate > database operations like creating databases and tables? I wouldn't permit > this to be done to my production server.
That's why I asked for running the test suite in a 'sandbox'. >> Well, finally I installed valgrind and had to re-install glibc with >> debugging symbols (another error the test suite logged but did not detect). > > why did you need the debugging symbols? In Gentoo imdiag is currently only available when compiling with "debug" USE flag. This will also enable "--enable-valgrind".. The error message logged in the "udp-msgreduc-vg" log file was something like > valgrind: Fatal error at startup: a function redirection > valgrind: which is mandatory for this platform-tool combination > valgrind: cannot be set up. Details of the redirection are: > valgrind: > valgrind: [...] > valgrind: > valgrind: Possible fixes: (1, short term): install glibc's debuginfo > valgrind: package on this machine. (2, longer term): ask the packagers > valgrind: for your Linux distribution to please in future ship a non- > valgrind: stripped ld.so (or whatever the dynamic linker .so is called) > valgrind: that exports the above-named function using the standard > valgrind: calling conventions for this platform. > valgrind: > valgrind: Cannot continue -- exiting now. Sorry. > But let me be clear. From this thread, it looks like these should be our > project priorities: > > 1. make the testbench fully automatic and self-contained > 2. create unit tests > 3. create more and better integration tests > 4. document > 5. fix bugs > 6. develop new features > > Given the fact that I am I and not a big team like at MySQL, I don't > believe this is the right order of priorities. > > In reality, it is me alone doing >95% of all work, and funding for this > work is almost solely by Adiscon (and only partially backed by paying > customers). Asking this question shows me that you understand my point. Great! ;) Yes, I am voting for changing the priority order like you said. Don't get me wrong. I am not saying that you MUST change anything. I am only answering the question "If you could change something in the project, what would you change?" ... and I would change the priority to improve the current project quality using automatic tests. -Thomas _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad of sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if you DON'T LIKE THAT.
