Question about Busybox Testsuite

[Denys Vlasenko]

On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 8:53 AM, ChenQi <Qi.Chen at windriver.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Does busybox's testsuite still make sense for a sanity check?

Yes. It is used before every major release to prevent regressions.

> I just built a busybox and used `make check' to perform a sanity check.
> There were several failures. I built both on lastest master and 1.21-stable
> release.
> Are these failures expected? Or are these known failures?

testsuite/README says:

"""
Set SKIP_KNOWN_BUGS environment variable to any non-empty value
to exclude tests which are known to fail.
"""

Everything which FAILs with that variable set is an unexpected failure.

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