Hello, To ease portability testing of GNU software, I've created a collection of virtual-machines of POSIX-compatible, Free-Software operating systems. These are pre-configured with programs required for building autotools-based projects.
If anyone is interested in using them, downloads and more information are available here: http://www.nongnu.org/pretest/ I've sent few reports based on these VMs to various mailing lists (and except the MINIX case, I hope the signal-to-noise ratio was good enough to be considered useful). OSes include: gNewSense, Trisquel, Debian, Ubuntu (only the free repositories), CentOS, OpenSUSE, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, GNU Hurd, DilOS (OpenSolaris-like), MINIX. Downloads here: http://www.nongnu.org/pretest/downloads/ In this first version, testing is done manually. In future versions, I hope to automate large parts of it (that is - given a tarball, run "configure + make + make check" on all VMs). Integration with other infrastructures (like libvirt) is also a goal. I will try to test future tarballs sent to platform-testers. Comments and suggestions are welcomed, (Please reply to pretest-us...@nongnu.org ) - Assaf
