(Extracting this to its own thread...) On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 4:58 AM Ross Burton <ross@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Is it time that autoconf gets some CI to actually exercise all these > paths? It's own 'make check' followed by building a selection of > representative software seems like it shouldn't be *too* difficult. Indeed, something like this would be a great help. Autoconf's own test suite doesn't exercise the _semantics_ of individual test macros hardly at all, and we're relying entirely on manual test cycles right now. We would ideally need a CI platform that the FSF approves of and that supports a wide variety of host operating systems, including weird old proprietary Unix. I don't know, off the top of my head, of anything that fits those criteria. However, even just some basic automation and a cron job on a small number of current OSes would be better than nothing. Also, despite how much easier it might make the release, it's a bigger job than I can reasonably tackle as a volunteer. (I will add this to the set of things I'm trying to get funding for.) zw
