2002-02-08 18:37:54

by Robert Williamson

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Subject: [Announcement] New Release of LTP testsuite available

The Linux Test project ltp-20020207 has been released. For more
information about the Linux Test Project,
or to download the testsuite, see our website at http://ltp.sourceforge.net
. This release contains enhancements
to support execution on the following additional architectures:

IBM z-Series mainframe
PowerPC
Intel IA-64

New test results, that include these new architectures, are published at
http://ltp.sourceforge.net/results.html. Initial
support for an IPv6 network environment were also added to the testsuite.
Modifications were made to the
Makefiles to allow non-root and cross-compiler compilation, and numerous
bugfixes are implemented.

Change Log:
------------
o added support for cross-compiling (Todd Inglett)
o added LKML's cache_leak testcase to ltp/scratch (Nate Straz)
o added IPv6 support (Robbie Williamson)
o added "gethost" to /tools (Robbie Williamson)
o fixed the race conditions in the float tests and removed
the sleeps (Robbie Williamson)
o enabled non-root make authority (Paul Larson)
o separated compilation into "make" and "make install" (Paul Larson)
o added ipc_stress test (Manoj Iyer)
o added pthreads_stress test (Manoj Iyer)
o made changes to support architecture independence (Manoj Iyer &
Paul Larson)
o closed the following bugs:
504960, 505108, 504613, 504616, 491283, 506689, 508055, 506692,
508074
491289, 506662, 511383, 511391, 511427, 511494, 504649, 514050
(Manoj Iyer, Paul Larson, and Robbie Williamson)


- Robbie

Robert V. Williamson
Linux Test Project
IBM Linux Technology Center
Phone: (512) 838-9295 T/L: 638-9295
http://ltp.sourceforge.net