On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 11:04:24PM +0100, Stefan Weil wrote: > What's the reason for "_supported_os Linux" in each test? > Because of this statement, the tests only run on Linux today, > although they could also run on BSD, w32 and other operating > systems (maybe small fixes are needed). > > I don't think that adding every possible OS to each test > would be a good solution. Can we remove this OS dependency > completely?
In many cases the _supported_os was probably copy-pasted when creating new tests. However, we can be pretty sure that the tests haven't all been run on anything other than Linux and maybe Windows recently. I think we can support other host OSes but we should combine this with adding "make check" and maybe "make check-block" to the buildbot - that way we'll be notified if the tests break. There are Linux, Solaris, and OpenBSD buildslaves. Stefan
