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authorChris Lattner <sabre@nondot.org>2004-06-24 20:53:09 +0000
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<li><a href="#qmstructure">QMTest Structure</a></li>
<li><a href="#progstructure">Programs Structure</a></li>
<li><a href="#run">Running the LLVM Tests</a></li>
+<li><a href="#nightly">Running the nightly tester</a></li>
</ol>
<div class="doc_author">
@@ -368,6 +369,37 @@ can tell the difference between an expected and unexpected failure.</p>
only warnings and other miscellaneous output will be generated. If a test
fails, a large &lt;program&gt; FAILED message will be displayed. This will help
you separate benign warnings from actual test failures.</p>
+
+</div>
+
+<!--===============================================================-->
+<div class="doc_section"><a name="nightly">Running the nightly tester</a></div>
+<!--===============================================================-->
+
+<div class="doc_text">
+
+<p>
+The <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/testresults/">LLVM Nightly Testers</a>
+automatically check out an LLVM tree, build it, run the "nightly"
+program test (described above) and all of the regression tests, then
+delete the checked out tree. This tester is designed to ensure that
+programs don't break as well as keep track of LLVM's progress over time.</p>
+
+<p>
+If you'd like to set up an instance of the nightly tester to run on your
+machine, take a look at the comments at the top of the utils/NightlyTester.pl
+file. We usually run it from a crontab entry that looks ilke this:
+</p>
+
+<pre>
+5 3 * * * LLVM_LIB_SEARCH_PATH=.../llvm-gcc/bytecode-libs $HOME/llvm/utils/NightlyTest.pl -parallel -enable-linscan ...CVSREPOSTRING... $HOME/buildtest-X86 $HOME/cvs/testresults-X86
+</pre>
+
+<p>
+Take a look at the NightlyTest.pl file to see what all of the flags and
+strings do. If you start running the nightly tests, please let us know and
+we'll link your page to the global tester page. Thanks!
+</p>
</div>