On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 07:59:20AM +0000, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > 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.
Yes. > 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. For now please add the Oses it actually works as documentation, once we have a good overview we can add classes like "generic" or "posix"
