Greg Schafer wrote: > Ummm, I don't wanna be a party pooper but I'm afraid "stable environment" > and "working wonderfully" simply do not cut the mustard as a measure of > the effectiveness of the said changes.
Of course not. That's why I asked for the cluebat about making binary diffs. Also, if you recall from discussions on this previously, it can reproduce itself. We have built this branch from this branch, and it seems reliable. But you're right, an ICA is in order. > IMHO, a very important aspect of these proposed changes is to check > whether Ch 6 can reproduce itself reliably. There is only one way to > properly measure reproducibility and that is to do some binary diffing a > la ICA (Iterative Comparison Analysis). My techniques (detailed in the > gsbuild scripts) are not perfect but they have certainly been good enough > over the years to detect quite a few bugs. > > Maybe you could integrate some ICA style functionality into jhalfs? Yes, thanks, I'll look into doing that. -- JH -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
