From b26e27692be487076bb547f7d6cb810bf7a3692c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Schwinge Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2011 00:16:30 +0100 Subject: community/gsoc/project_ideas/testsuites: Link to open_issues/open_posix_test_suite. --- community/gsoc/project_ideas/testsuites.mdwn | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/testsuites.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/testsuites.mdwn index ee1dc10c..8100bfb7 100644 --- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/testsuites.mdwn +++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/testsuites.mdwn @@ -11,10 +11,14 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] [[!meta title="Fix Compatibility Problems Exposed by Testsuites"]] A number of software packages come with extensive testsuites. -Some notable ones are libc, gnulib, Perl, Python, GNU Coreutils, and glib. +Some notable ones are [[glibc|open_issues/glibc_testsuite]], gnulib, Perl, +Python, GNU Coreutils, and glib. While these testsuites were written mostly to track regressions in the respective packages, some of the tests fail on the Hurd in general. +There is also the [[Open POSIX Testsuite|open_issues/open_posix_test_suite]] +which is more of a whole system interface testing suite. + While in some cases these might point to wrong usage of system interfaces, most of the time such failures are actually caused by shortcomings in Hurd's implementation of these interfaces. These shortcomings are often not obvious in normal use, -- cgit v1.2.3