[GSoC] Introduction

[Dmitry V. Levin]

Hi,

On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 10:13:45PM +0800, Daniel Lim wrote:
> Hi all, 
> 
> I’m Daniel, and looking forward to contribute to strace through GSoC this year. I have used strace in several occasions for debugging programs, which is why I wish to contribute. I believe GSoC would provide me with a great opportunity to achieve this.
> 
> I am currently attempting to complete a microproject and have a question. While trying to build strace from source and running `make check`, I got the following test report:
> 
> ============================================================================
> Testsuite summary for strace 5.0.0.2.bf819-dirty
> ============================================================================
> # TOTAL: 651
> # PASS:  527
> # SKIP:  103
> # XFAIL: 0
> # FAIL:  21
> # XPASS: 0
> # ERROR: 0
> 
> That’s quite a number of failures and I wonder if I should be concerned. This was ran on a Ubuntu Bionic vagrant box, output of `uname -a` is:
> 
> Linux ubuntu-bionic 4.15.0-46-generic #49-Ubuntu SMP Wed Feb 6 09:33:07 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> 
> That’s all for now. I hope to learn a lot from you guys!

Try passing VERBOSE=1 to "make check" to see a more verbose test report.

There should be no failed tests unless you are using kernel uapi headers
from linux kernel 5.1 that adds a lot of new syscalls.


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