On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 17:51 -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote: > That's not so easy to generalize. As Jakub wrote, you need some form of > workload. After the binaries are built this workload has to be > executed. How to do that cannot really be summarized. Some packages > might need to be installed to function. Others need permissions etc. > Some might need interaction. For console programs you can do that using > expect but for GUI programs... > > After the workload is run you need to rebuild everything again while > pointing to the files created by running the workload. The first stage > binaries automatically create those files. As an aside, OpenOffice.org has a smoketest where OOo is run headless, i.e. without DISPLAY, to open/save various documents and other brief representative sanity tests. Might be tempting, maybe too tempting, to experiment with that. Though double building OOo every time isn't massively appetising. C. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
