Comments on: Actual Regression Test Output

By: Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò

Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:01:19 +0000

I misremembered OSX had md5sum rather than md5 (the two have indeed different syntax too), md5 is also present on BSD.

As I said, it’s less portable, probably lots less portable, and if you use Python for the rest of the framework it’s definitely better to use it, I just find Python a lot less readable :P

By: Multimedia Mike

Multimedia Mike — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:05:12 +0000

It’s funny that you should present those ‘md5sum’ and ‘size’ command lines– because that’s exactly what I used to do during the first pass at FATE. Each installation had a TOOLS directory that had symlinks to the proper command line tool. The thinking behind the symlinks was that, for example, md5sum is not available everywhere (it’s just ‘md5′ on Mac OS X). I think it’s a cleaner solution to have this functionality inside of the Python script, and it’s a very minor amount of code to compute an MD5 hash or obtain a file’s size (and it’s part of the standard lib to boot).

By: Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò

Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:20:53 +0000

Well, you know, me and Luca work with shells scripts for ebuilds all day long you could have asked ;)

md5sum $filename | cut -d ‘ ‘ -f1

this will give you just the md5 of the file without the filename.

size -c ‘%s’ $filename

will give you the size in bytes on GNU userlands, I admit I don’t remember the equivalent using BSD stat command, but you can otherwise use the find command

find $filename -printf ‘%s\n’

And now tell me that Python is more readable than this ;) Okay I admit it’s less portable, though I dislike Python’s “readability” very much, Ruby forever :)

By: Mans

Mans — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 12:02:15 +0000

Fully splitting the regression tests is on my list of things to do some time.

By: Reimar

Reimar — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 09:25:12 +0000

Yay! Though I think PPC gcc svn is still beyond hope of fixing ;-)