Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/4] Clean up TCG tests

[Peter Maydell]

On 21 August 2016 at 04:46, Pranith Kumar <address@hidden> wrote:
> The tests currently fail, so I didn't think it would be appropriate to
> hook them up.  If the rearrangement is acceptable and once I fix the
> tests, I will hook up 'make check' to run these tests.

So the question is: how will this work on systems which
don't have the relevant compiler toolchain for the target?
This has always been the stumbling block for tests which
want to run guest code: it's just too much of a pain for
most developers to have the toolchains available to build
the guest code.

I have a vague idea that we could use something involving
docker images so that you could define a test case including
what the toolchain it needed to build was, and then have
images so that in practice you could just use prebuilt
binaries for the test blobs. But I haven't really thought
much about it yet.

thanks
-- PMM