Re: UNIX95 test suite

Andi Kleen (ak@muc.de)
25 Dec 1997 13:37:22 +0100


orly@mozcom.com (Orlando Andico) writes:

> If anyone's interested, The Open Group has made available their test suite
> for the UNIX platform. It's at
>
> http://www.opengroup.org/testing/cireport1.4a/
>
> available with a free one-month evaluation or an unlimited license for
> $600. The suite is compatible with Make and tests your application's
> portability with Motif, X11R5, SVID3, XPG3/XPG4, SPEC1170/UNIX95,
> and a host of others.
>
> This is an opportunity to test Linux for conformance with UNIX95 so
> perhaps our favorite OS might finally gain UNIX brand conformance,
> which I suspect would do a lot towards wider industry acceptance.

This package only tests applications, not systems, so it's useless for
testing Linux/glibc.

-Andi