Re: perf tools regression testing was Re: [PATCH v3 1/9] perfhists: Move hists_init() from util/evsel.c to util/hist.c

[Namhyung Kim]

2012-09-25 (í), 10:30 -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:
> Em Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 09:59:02PM +0900, Namhyung Kim escreveu:
> > Now I'm thinking of making it build-time test so that it can be executed
> > by make when specific argument is given - e.g. make C=1 ?
> 
> I think there is room for a 'make -C tools/perf check' that would use
> the 'expect' tool to do not just this but also run record, report, etc
> and check its output against what is expected, perf test is ok for
> checking the APIs, but we need a test suite for the actual builtins as
> called from the command line.

Hmm.. we have 'make check' but running it ended up tons of macro
redefinition and unknown attribute warnings from sparse. :/

Thanks,
Namhyung


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