[Ns-developers] [Bug 370] ipv4-interface.h is installed

[Mathieu Lacage]

On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 16:07 +0000, Gustavo Carneiro wrote:

> Surely running the regression tests on your own host would be enough?
> I
> never run regression tests on any remote host.  It takes less than a
> minute
> on my laptop.

Yes, I don't think normal development requires more than regression
tests working on your machine: we have the daily email output of the
regression test to tell us we have screwed up the system, and we can use
it to be notified that we have to debug something serious.

What I personally usually do is:
1) in normal development, build debug and optimized versions, run
regressions for both
2) close to the release, build debug and optimized versions for a set of
known compilers: 3.4.6, 4.0.x, 4.1.x, 4.2.x

In my experience, the above is sufficient to cover 95% of portability
problems (especially 3.4.6 and 4.0.x). For 2), I had some trivial
scripts to do this for me at some point but I lost them. If there is
interest in this, I can re-generate them.

Mathieu